Swaffham
Swaffham is a market town and also civil parish in the Breckland Area as well as English region of Norfolk. It is situated 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 boosted to 7,258, in 3,258 families, at the 2011 census. For the purposes of city government, the parish falls within the district of Breckland. On the west side of Swaffham Market Place are a number of old structures which for years housed the historical Hamond's Grade school, as a plaque on the wall of the major structure explains. The Hamond's Grade school developing more recently pertained to serve as the sixth kind for the Hamond's High School, yet that use has since ceased. Harry Carter, the grade school's art instructor of the 1960s, was responsible for a variety of the sculpted town indications that are now found in a lot of Norfolk's towns as well as towns, consisting of Swaffham's own sign honoring the legendary Pedlar of Swaffham, which is in the edge of the market place just opposite the traditional's entrances. Carter was a distant relative of the excavator and egyptologist Howard Carter who spent much of his childhood years in the town.
