How Hill Mill, Ludham Ludham · Norfolk · England

Ludham How Hill tower mill stands close to the River Ant on the northwest side of Ludham. Norfolk Mills records that it was built in 1825 by William Sherwood Page, who placed a W.S.P. 1825 datestone above the meal door on the western side of the tower. The mill was a five-storey tarred-brick tower with a pronounced batter, measuring 21 ft 6 in at the base and narrowing to about 10 feet at the dust floor.

It was powered by four double-shuttered sails, each with six bays of three shutters and four shutters on the innermost bay. The Norfolk boat-shaped cap had a petticoat, gallery and six-bladed fan, and the sails were struck by tailpole. The mill was advertised for sale or let in August 1831, and again in August 1835 as a capital brick tower windmill with dwelling house, outbuildings and about two and a half acres of land.

White's 1836 directory recorded John Page as corn miller at How Hill. The 1842 tithe award recorded the mill, house and associated land as plot 448, owned by William Sherwood Page and occupied by James Page. Later records include several millers and possible occupiers, including Jeremiah Chapman, John Clarke and Frederick Chapman.

In 1902 Edward Thomas Boardman bought the How Hill Estate and turned it into a fruit farm; water tanks were later placed at the top of the mill to aid irrigation. By 1971 Harry Apling recorded that the mill was in residential use with no machinery remaining. The ground floor had large double doors to the north and a main single door to the east, while the dust floor had been roofed over at curb level with a leaded roof and parapet.

Windmill World records the site as How Hill Mill, Ludham, a corn tower mill, and notes its Grade II listing.