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City, 122, Cheapside. (EC2) Wood Street and Whitecross Street are said to have been the last streets in London in which the houses were distinguished by signs. These were removed about the year 1773. The ancient cross which stood in Cheapside to mark the spot where the remains of Queen Eleanor, consort of Edward I, rested on the way to Westminster Abbey stood nearly opposite Wood Street. (Jesse's. London, vol. III, pp. 16, 146)

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