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Ludham (population 1301) is a village
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
 in Norfolk, England, in The Broads
The Broads

The Broads is a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the England counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. The Broads, and some surrounding land was constituted as a special area with a level of protection similar to a National Parks of England and Wales by The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act of 1988....
, at the end of a dyke leading to Womack Water and flowing into the River Thurne
River Thurne

The River Thurne is a river in Norfolk, England in The Broads. Just six miles long it rises two miles from the coast near Martham Broad and is navigable from West Somerton....
. It lies to the east of Ludham Bridge
Ludham Bridge

Ludham Bridge is a hamlet on the River Ant on the Norfolk Broads in Norfolk, England....
 on the River Ant
River Ant

The River Ant is a tributary river of the River Bure in England. It is 17 miles long , and has an overall drop of 25 meters from source to mouth....
.

It is part of the Ludham - Potter Heigham NNR
Ludham - Potter Heigham NNR

Ludham - Potter Heigham Marshes NNR is a National Nature Reserve established and owned by English Nature in Norfolk, England, within The Broads National Park....
, a National Nature Reserve
National Nature Reserve

National nature reserve is a United Kingdom government conservation designation for a nature reserve of national significance for biological or earth science interest....
.

The village gave its name to a Ham class minesweeper
Ham class minesweeper

The Ham class was a ship class of inshore minesweeper s , known as the Type 1, of the United Kingdom Royal Navy. The class was designed to operate in the shallow water of rivers and Estuary....
, HMS Ludham
HMS Ludham

HMS Ludham was one of 93 ships of the of inshore Minesweeper .Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Ludham in Norfolk....
.

RAF Ludham
Ludham was transferred from No. 12 Group RAF
No. 12 Group RAF

No. 12 Group RAF was first formed in April 1918 at Cranwell, Lincolnshire, within No. 3 Area RAF. On 8 May, 1918 the group transferred to Midland Area RAF, and then to Northern Area RAF on 18 October 1919....
 to the Admiralty
Admiralty

The Admiralty was formerly the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put "in commission", and was exercised by a Board of Admiralty....
 on 24 August 1944 and occupied by the Mobile Naval Airfields Organisation.






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Ludham (population 1301) is a village
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
 in Norfolk, England, in The Broads
The Broads

The Broads is a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the England counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. The Broads, and some surrounding land was constituted as a special area with a level of protection similar to a National Parks of England and Wales by The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act of 1988....
, at the end of a dyke leading to Womack Water and flowing into the River Thurne
River Thurne

The River Thurne is a river in Norfolk, England in The Broads. Just six miles long it rises two miles from the coast near Martham Broad and is navigable from West Somerton....
. It lies to the east of Ludham Bridge
Ludham Bridge

Ludham Bridge is a hamlet on the River Ant on the Norfolk Broads in Norfolk, England....
 on the River Ant
River Ant

The River Ant is a tributary river of the River Bure in England. It is 17 miles long , and has an overall drop of 25 meters from source to mouth....
.

It is part of the Ludham - Potter Heigham NNR
Ludham - Potter Heigham NNR

Ludham - Potter Heigham Marshes NNR is a National Nature Reserve established and owned by English Nature in Norfolk, England, within The Broads National Park....
, a National Nature Reserve
National Nature Reserve

National nature reserve is a United Kingdom government conservation designation for a nature reserve of national significance for biological or earth science interest....
.

The village gave its name to a Ham class minesweeper
Ham class minesweeper

The Ham class was a ship class of inshore minesweeper s , known as the Type 1, of the United Kingdom Royal Navy. The class was designed to operate in the shallow water of rivers and Estuary....
, HMS Ludham
HMS Ludham

HMS Ludham was one of 93 ships of the of inshore Minesweeper .Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Ludham in Norfolk....
.

RAF Ludham


Ludham was transferred from No. 12 Group RAF
No. 12 Group RAF

No. 12 Group RAF was first formed in April 1918 at Cranwell, Lincolnshire, within No. 3 Area RAF. On 8 May, 1918 the group transferred to Midland Area RAF, and then to Northern Area RAF on 18 October 1919....
 to the Admiralty
Admiralty

The Admiralty was formerly the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put "in commission", and was exercised by a Board of Admiralty....
 on 24 August 1944 and occupied by the Mobile Naval Airfields Organisation. RNAS Ludham was commissioned as HMS Flycatcher
HMS Flycatcher

HMS Flycatcher was a stone frigate name for the Royal Navy's headquarters for its Mobile Naval Air Bases which supported their Fleet Air Arm units....
, RNAS Ludham on 4 September under the command of the Senior Officer Mobile Naval Airfields Organisation. At Ludham the MNAO assembled and despatched the first five Mobile Naval Air Bases
Mobile Naval Air Bases

Mobile Operational Naval Air Bases were a series of mobile units first formed in 1944 to provide Logistics support to the Fleet Air Arm aircraft of the Royal Navy's British Pacific Fleet towards the end of World War II....
 (MONAB) and one "Transportable Aircraft Maintenance Yard" (TAMY). Flycatcher moved from Ludham to RAF Middle Wallop which was more advantageous to shipping the assembled units to the Far East
Far East

The Far East is a term current in English language to refer to the countries of East Asia. The term is often expanded to also include Southeast Asia and South Asia, for economic and cultural reasons, for example because Buddhism is common to East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia....
. In return the RAF took Ludham on again.

Film Location

Ludham was one of the film locations for the 1954 movie "Conflict of Wings" starring John Gregson and Muriel Pavlow. Adapted from the novel by Don Sharp, the story takes place in a Norfolk country village where the locals decide to fight against a proposal to build a rocket range on a bird sanctuary.

Filming took place in the village centre and shows many buildings and features (like the Bakers Arms pub and the very narrow main road through the village) which are no longer there.

A photograph showing filming and more information about Ludham can be accessed at the Ludham Community Archive website http://www.ludhamarchive.org.uk/nita.htm