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[[File:Charing Cross Station entrance and Hotel geograph-3104796-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|thumb|Charing Cross Station forecourt with replica Eleanor Cross]]'''Charing Cross''' is an area of the [[City of Westminster]], just south of [[Trafalgar Square]]. It is often taken to be the exact centre of London. The name is now mainly associated with the nearby Charing Cross station.

[[Charing Cross Hospital]], known for its gender identify clinic, was located near Charing Cross until 1973, when it moved to [[Hammersmith]].

==LGBT history==

In 1703 the blackmailer [[Thomas Vaughan]] was sentenced to be whipped from Temple Bar to Charing Cross, and to stand in the pillory there.<ref>http://www.rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/1707vaug.htm Rictor Norton (Ed.), "Trials of Thomas Vaughan and Thomas Davis, 1707," ''Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook''. 29 April 2007, updated 15 June 2008</ref>

In 1993 the murderer [[Colin Ireland]] was convicted after being seen on video with a victim on Charing Cross Station.

The [[Heaven]] nightclub is located in the arches under the station.

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