Swaffham
Swaffham is a market town as well as civil parish in the Breckland District as well as English area 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 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 houses, at the 2011 census. For the objectives of city government, the parish falls within the area of Breckland. On the west side of Swaffham Market Place are a number of old structures which for many years housed the historic Hamond's Grade school, as a plaque on the wall of the major structure clarifies. The Hamond's Grammar School constructing more recently involved act as the sixth form for the Hamond's High School, yet that use has actually considering that ceased. Harry Carter, the grade school's art educator of the 1960s, was in charge of a great number of the sculpted village indications that are now discovered in most of Norfolk's towns and also towns, including Swaffham's own indication commemorating the legendary Pedlar of Swaffham, which is in the edge of the marketplace place just opposite the traditional's gates. Carter was a far-off cousin of the archaeologist as well as egyptologist Howard Carter who spent much of his childhood in the town.
