Swaffham
Swaffham is a market town as well as civil parish in the Breckland Area as well as English area of Norfolk. It is located 12 miles (19 kilometres) east of King's Lynn and 31 miles (50 kilometres) west of Norwich. The civil parish has an area of 11.42 sq mi (29.6 km2) and also in the 2001 census had a population of 6,935 in 3,130 houses, which raised to 7,258, in 3,258 homes, 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 buildings which for years housed the historic Hamond's Grade school, as a plaque on the wall of the primary building discusses. The Hamond's Grade school building latterly concerned function as the 6th type for the Hamond's High School, however that usage has since stopped. Harry Carter, the grade school's art instructor of the 1960s, was accountable for a variety of the sculpted town signs that are currently located in much of Norfolk's towns and also towns, including Swaffham's own indication commemorating the fabulous Pedlar of Swaffham, which remains in the edge of the marketplace place simply opposite the traditional's gateways. Carter was a distant cousin of the excavator and egyptologist Howard Carter that spent much of his youth in the town.
