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Letter

Neil Staff
Sunday 05 December 1993 00:02 GMT
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THE village of Charing (now under Trafalgar Square) was around long before Kind Edward's Eleanor died (The List, 28 November). The name evolved from the Old English word 'cierring' (bend in river or road).

Neil Staff, London E1

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