Swaffham
Swaffham is a market town as well as civil parish in the Breckland District and English county of Norfolk. It is situated 12 miles (19 kilometres) eastern of King's Lynn and also 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 houses, at the 2011 census. For the purposes of city government, the parish falls within the area of Breckland. On the west side of Swaffham Market Place are numerous old buildings which for years housed the historic Hamond's Grade school, as a plaque on the wall surface of the main building clarifies. The Hamond's Grade school constructing more recently pertained to serve as the sixth form for the Hamond's High School, however that use has given that stopped. Harry Carter, the grade school's art teacher of the 1960s, was accountable for a multitude of the sculpted town indicators that are currently found in a lot of Norfolk's towns as well as towns, including Swaffham's own indicator commemorating the famous Pedlar of Swaffham, which is in the edge of the marketplace area simply opposite the traditional's gates. Carter was a distant relative of the archaeologist and also egyptologist Howard Carter who spent much of his childhood years in the town.
