Converted duke’s smithy with door shaped like a giant horseshoe is for sale for £575,000

The converted smithy of a former duke, which boasts a giant horseshoe-shaped front door, has been put on the market for £575,000. The Grade II listed property was converted into a three-bedroom house from the former smithy to the Duke of Sutherland.  The smithy was part of the Trentham Estate whose ancestral house, Trentham Hall, … Read more

Converted duke’s smithy with door shaped like a giant horseshoe is for sale for £575,000

The converted smithy of a former duke, which boasts a giant horseshoe-shaped front door, has been put on the market for £575,000. The Grade II listed property was converted into a three-bedroom house from the former smithy to the Duke of Sutherland.  The smithy was part of the Trentham Estate whose ancestral house, Trentham Hall, … Read more

Nature: Extremely rare greater horseshoe bat is spotted for the first time in 100 years in Kent

Extremely rare and endangered greater horseshoe bat is spotted for the first time in 100 years in Dover Castle’s ‘Horseshoe Passage’ in Kent The elusive mammal was found by Claire and Toby Munn of the Kent Bat Group By coincidence, it was found in the castle’s Napoleonic-age ‘Horseshoe Passage’  Experts have been hunting for bats in … Read more