It was perhaps during the Civil War that the Eleanor Cross of the town was destroyed, although Eleanor Close, and Eleanor Walk, presently remind of the association. After the death of his wife, Queen Eleanor, in the mid winter of 1190 King Edward had decreed that along the journey from Harby, in Lincolnshire, to the funeral at Westminster, at each place where the cortege stopped to rest a stone cross should be placed, and at a cost of £60 6s 8d, that of Woburn would be fashioned around 1292 by Ralph de Chichester. As with those of Stony Stratford and Dunstable many crosses were destroyed during the Civil War, and perhaps this was also the fate of Woburn’s since, in 1645, the fire begun by the Royalist raid caused damage to a total of £3,869 7s, ‘as appeareth by the estimation of 4 sufficient carpenters and 4 masons.’