Box Elder News Journal | 1907-11-28 | Page 7 | House Eleven Hundred Years Old

hu house eleven hundred years vr old st fit albans possesses pos the oldest habited house in england this distinction lp in said to beloni belong to the old round hoose now the fighting cocks inn which stands close to the river ver it la Is a curious structure of octagonal shape of early saxon origin having been built na as a boathouse to the ancient monastery founded at st albans albana by king otra about the year and Is thus over 1100 bears bars old A subterranean passage now blocked up runs from the basement to the ruins of the monastery a ds distance tance of 0 about yards there Is a shed at the back ot of the house where bere it is said oliver cromwell stabled his horse himself sleeping under tinder its root during the civil war