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Hanging out at a new roost ; David Clensy meets some elusive bats living the high life, in a new pounds43,000 roost at a National Trust property

David Clensy meets some elusive bats living the high life, in a new pounds43,000 roost at a National Trust property

Should you ever arrive at Tyntesfield as dusk descends and the bats are flapping around the neo-Gothic turrets on the rambling Victorian pile, you'd be forgiven for feeling a shiver down your spine.

It couldn't look much more like a setting for a horror film if the Hammer production team had designed it as a movie set.

But with the first flush of morning, when bird song has replaced the owl hoots and the bats have returned to their roosts, the National Trust-owned property seems altogether more benign.

The property was built in the 19th century by imaginative guano magnate ...

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