Swaffham
Swaffham is a market community as well as civil parish in the Breckland District and 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 in the 2001 census had a population of 6,935 in 3,130 families, which raised to 7,258, in 3,258 homes, at the 2011 census. For the objectives of city government, the parish drops within the area of Breckland. On the west side of Swaffham Market Place are numerous old structures which for many years housed the historical Hamond's Grade school, as a plaque on the wall of the major building discusses. The Hamond's Grade school developing latterly concerned function as the 6th type for the Hamond's High School, however that usage has since discontinued. Harry Carter, the grade school's art instructor of the 1960s, was responsible for a variety of the sculpted village indicators that are now discovered in most of Norfolk's communities and villages, including Swaffham's own indicator honoring the fabulous Pedlar of Swaffham, which remains in the corner of the market place just opposite the old-fashioned's entrances. Carter was a distant relative of the excavator as well as egyptologist Howard Carter that spent a lot of his childhood years in the town.
