How Hill
How Hill is a house and the hamlet in which it stands, all beside on the River Ant within the Norfolk Broads, west of the village of Ludham in Norfolk. Beside the house is a broadland nature reserve; the How Hill Nature Reserve.
The house was the family home of Christopher Boardman who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics, winning gold for sailing. As gold medallist he was presented with an oak sapling which he planted at How Hill.[1] His younger brother, Humphrey Boardman, rowed in the double sculls at the 1928 Olympic games and won double gold at the 1930 British Empire Games. Their father, Edward Thomas Boardman, was a Norwich architect, and their mother, Florence, was a daughter of J J Colman of the Colman's Mustard family.
The large Edwardian building houses the Norfolk Broads Study Centre, an independent charitable organisation which runs residential environmental courses for groups of schoolchildren.
How Hill Nature Reserve and landscape
The How Hill Nature Reserve is administered by the Broads Authority. It encompasses marsh and woodland, from Crome's Broad to the Ant and with part of Reedham Marsh.
Through the waters of the reserve runs the "Electric Eel", an electric passenger boat on which visitors can take a trip through the maze of reed-fringed dykes, normally not accessible to the public.
Toad Hole Museum is a former marshman's cottage and also houses the Broads Information Centre.
Boardman's Windmill is a trestle or skeleton windpump, and Clayrack Drainage Mill is similar, only smaller. Just south of How Hill is Turf Fen windpump.
Outside links
- Location map: 52°43’3"N, 1°30’30"E
- How Hill Trust