Swaffham
Swaffham is a market community and also civil parish in the Breckland Area and also English county of Norfolk. It is positioned 12 miles (19 kilometres) east of King's Lynn and 31 miles (50 kilometres) west of Norwich. The civil parish has a location of 11.42 sq mi (29.6 km2) as well as in the 2001 census had a population of 6,935 in 3,130 households, which raised to 7,258, in 3,258 families, at the 2011 census. For the functions of local government, the church falls within the district of Breckland. On the west side of Swaffham Market Place are a number of old structures which for several years housed the historic Hamond's Grade school, as a plaque on the wall surface of the primary building explains. The Hamond's Grammar School building more recently pertained to work as the sixth form for the Hamond's High School, but that use has because stopped. Harry Carter, the grammar school's art educator of the 1960s, was in charge of a multitude of the carved village indications that are now located in a lot of Norfolk's communities and villages, consisting of Swaffham's own indicator honoring the fabulous Pedlar of Swaffham, which remains in the edge of the market area just opposite the old-fashioned's gates. Carter was a distant cousin of the excavator and egyptologist Howard Carter that invested a lot of his childhood years in the community.
