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How Hill (short version)

1976 , Norfolk Broads (Norfolk)

Cat no. 888

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An educational film, made by Norfolk Education Department, illustrating the traditional skills, industries and wildlife at the heart of the Norfolk Broads.

Traditional skills on display at How Hill are basket and hurdle making, oyster harvesting, thatching, eel catching, dyke cutting and maintenance, milling, and tern breeding. Children on a nature trail encounter reed, sedge, rushes, wild flowers, bank erosion, Crome's Broad and marsh gas. In the classroom, children examine small creatures and plants from the dykes including Caddis fly larvae. The remains of St Benet's abbey, Irstead Church, Barton Broad are seen on a boat trip. There are views of the gardens at How Hill and birds on the Broad, including a mallard being ringed, a black headed gull on the nest with chicks, young reed warbler, snipe and moorhen. An animal sequence features coypu, rabbits, hedgehogs, damselfly, swallowtail butterflies. A caterpillar metamorphosises into an adult swallowtail. Finally, further views of How Hill gardens.

Featured Buildings

How Hill; Church of St. Michael, Irstead; Remains of St Benet's Abbey

Keywords

Butterflies; Conservation; Flowers; Lepidoptera; Nature; Nature trail, Insects; Plants; Ornithology; Wildlife

Other Places

Ludham, Irstead

Background Information

The following information is from the How Hill Trust's website at www.how-hill.org.uk: How Hill House, situated in the heart of the Norfolk Broads, was built in 1904 by the architect Edward Thomas Boardman as his family's holiday home. The house became a study centre in 1967, but ever since 1984 it has been managed by an independent charitable trust which ensures that the property is cherished. The house is surrounded by delightful Edwardian gardens, but there is also a quite separate woodland garden featuring a magnificent springtime display of azaleas. The How Hill windows look out over a 365 acre estate, which is a most attractive and unique Broadland landscape, including reed beds, meadows, a small broad, woodlands, a reach of the River Ant, a marshman’s cottage, and restored windmills.

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How Hill (short version)

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