King's Cross
King's Cross is a district in the area of St. Pancras, London. Its name comes from the monument to George IV which stood from 1830 to 1845 at "the king's crossroads," where New Road (now Euston Road), Gray's Inn Road (link) and Pentonville Road (link) meet. King's Cross station was erected on the site in 1852, and replaced a temporary station that had been erected nearby for the Great Exhibition of 1851. The area was traditionally believed to be the site of the legendary battle between Queen Boudicca, the Iceni warrior queen, and the Roman invaders.