Swaffham is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland District as well as English county of Norfolk. It is located 12 miles (19 kilometres) eastern 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 homes, which increased to 7,258, in 3,258 households, at the 2011 census. For the objectives of city government, the church drops within the district of Breckland. On the west side of Swaffham Market Place are a number of old buildings which for years housed the historical Hamond's Grade school, as a plaque on the wall surface of the major building explains. The Hamond's Grammar School constructing latterly involved serve as the 6th type for the Hamond's High School, however that use has considering that stopped. Harry Carter, the grammar school's art educator of the 1960s, was in charge of a great number of the carved town signs that are now discovered in a lot of Norfolk's towns and also towns, consisting of Swaffham's own indicator celebrating the fabulous Pedlar of Swaffham, which is in the corner of the marketplace place simply opposite the old school's gateways. Carter was a distant cousin of the excavator and egyptologist Howard Carter that spent much of his childhood years in the community.