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Show Hiuse Eleven Hundred Years Old. St. Albans possesses tho oldest' Inhabited In-habited house In tho country. This distinction Is said to belong to tho old Hound hous.0, now tho Fighting Cocks Inn, which stands closo to tho Rlvor Vor. It Is n curious structure of octagonal shape of early Saxon origin, ori-gin, having beon built as a boathouso t thb ancient monastery founded at St. Albans by King Offa about tbo year 795, and is thus over 1,100 yor 8 old. A subterranoan pnssago, now blocked up, runs from tho busemont to tho ruins of the monastery, a dls-tanco dls-tanco of about 200 yards. Thoro Is a shed at the back of the house, whoro It Is said Oliver Cromwell stabled his hprso, hlmsolf onco Bleeping under Its roof during tho civil war. Collecting. |