Brandon
Brandon is a village and also civil church in the English region of Suffolk. Brandon is located in the Breckland area on the boundary of Suffolk with the adjacent county of Norfolk. Bordered by Forestry Commission and also farming land it is thought about a country community. The town's existing population is recorded as 9,636 people in the 2011 UK Census. Brandon has 3 institutions; 2 key, Forest Academy as well as Glade Academy; and also one Secondary school, IES Breckland. Brandon's population has actually gradually enhanced since the Second World War as a result of immigration. After the war, there was an influx of servicemen from Poland that worked out in the community as well as additionally in nearby Weeting, Norfolk. The Cold War saw lots of American solution individuals and also their families billeted in and around the community. The Greater London Council managed the structure of a large Council estate off Thetford Road and also Bury Road in the 1970s and also numerous London families were transferred to Brandon throughout that time.