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The Oldest Inhabited house in England

The Oldest Inhabited house in England.jpg The “Dick Whittington,” Cloth FairThumbnailsThe Kitchen of a Country Inn, 1797The “Dick Whittington,” Cloth FairThumbnailsThe Kitchen of a Country Inn, 1797The “Dick Whittington,” Cloth FairThumbnailsThe Kitchen of a Country Inn, 1797The “Dick Whittington,” Cloth FairThumbnailsThe Kitchen of a Country Inn, 1797The “Dick Whittington,” Cloth FairThumbnailsThe Kitchen of a Country Inn, 1797

The “Fighting Cocks” inn at St. Albans, down by the river Ver, below the Abbey, claims to be—not the oldest inn—but the oldest inhabited house, in the kingdom: a pretension that does not appear to be based on anything more than sheer impudence.