Swaffham
Swaffham is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland District and English county of Norfolk. It is located 12 miles (19 kilometres) east of King's Lynn and also 31 miles (50 kilometres) west of Norwich. The civil parish has a location of 11.42 sq mi (29.6 km2) and also in the 2001 census had a population of 6,935 in 3,130 households, which boosted to 7,258, in 3,258 houses, at the 2011 census. For the functions of city government, the parish falls within the area of Breckland. On the west side of Swaffham Market Place are several old structures which for many years housed the historic Hamond's Grade school, as a plaque on the wall surface of the major building discusses. The Hamond's Grammar School building latterly concerned act as the 6th type for the Hamond's High School, however that use has because discontinued. Harry Carter, the grammar school's art teacher of the 1960s, was accountable for a great number of the carved town indicators that are now discovered in much of Norfolk's communities as well as villages, consisting of Swaffham's own indicator honoring the famous Pedlar of Swaffham, which remains in the corner of the market place simply opposite the old school's gateways. Carter was a remote relative of the excavator as well as egyptologist Howard Carter who invested a lot of his youth in the town.
