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Show House Eleven Hundred Years Old, SL Albans posiesars the oldest Inhabited In-habited house In the country. This distinction Is said to belong to tho old Hound houso, now the Fighting Cocks Inn, which stands closo ta th nivcr Ver. It Is a curious structure ot octagonal shape of early Saxon origin, ori-gin, having been built as a boathouie to the ancient monastery rounded at 8t Albans by King Off a about tha rar 79S, and Is thus over 1,100 )rars old A subterranean passage, now blocked up, runs Irom the basement to the ruins of the monastery, a ills-tanco ills-tanco of about 200 yards Thera Is a shod at the back of tho house, whero It Is said Oliver Cromwell stabled hit horse, hlmtelf once sleeping under Its roof during tho civil war Collecting. |