ENGLAND'S OLDEST HOUSE NOW FOR SALE. Reputed to be England's oldest house, Minster Abbey is to he sold. ! According to tradition, the picturesque dwelling, which is located on the Isle of Thanet, near Margate, ih the south-eastern corner of England, dates back to King Eghert of Kent, who lived in the early part of the ninth century. Eghert granted half the Isle of Thanet to his niece Domneva, and she erected Minister Abbey as a nunnery. Later it became the property of the monks of St. Augustine, Canterbury, remaining in their hands for five centuries, or until the dissolution of the monasteries. James I sold the abbey and it has since been used as a private residence.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 666, 19 October 1933, Page 2
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