Yes, some do exist. Not in any malicious way you understand, call it Eleanor envy. There’s about 3 or 4 that I know about:
Ilham, Lancashire
Sledmere, Yorkshire
and Queensbury. Also, Charing Cross, outside the current Charing Cross Station in London. (If you’re ever travelling through, take a look.) There was a cross errected in Charing, but it was destroyed by the Parliamentarians, like many of Eleanor’s crosses. The current cross is a very beautiful Victorian imagining. It’s in no way technically accurate.
I do own one old image of the cross at Sledmere, perhaps one day I’ll visit it too.
Which Grand Duchess Would YOU Be?
I pass th Charing Cross one quite frequently. It’s only in the last few years I have stopped and taken a proper look at it. It is beautiful. I never really gave much thought to its authenticity
You should run an Eleanor idol contest and get people to send in their best shots of an Eleanor
I like it, but only in statue form, that would lower the entries Claire!
A lot of people miss it completely Jams! I’m glad you’ve seen her, I love it, just in a different way to the medieval ones.
It would not be fun for you to have to go through pictures of fat eleanors that cant sing
Well if they’re memorial Eleanors I’d have to kill them, so that could work.
That made LOL for real!