Swaffham
Swaffham is a market town and also civil parish in the Breckland District as well as English region of Norfolk. It is located 12 miles (19 kilometres) east of King's Lynn as well as 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 homes, which raised to 7,258, in 3,258 houses, at the 2011 census. For the objectives of local government, the church falls within the area of Breckland. On the west side of Swaffham Market Place are a number of old buildings which for several years housed the historical Hamond's Grammar School, as a plaque on the wall of the primary structure explains. The Hamond's Grade school constructing more recently pertained to act as the sixth form for the Hamond's High School, but that use has given that discontinued. Harry Carter, the grade school's art educator of the 1960s, was in charge of a great number of the sculpted town signs that are currently found in a lot of Norfolk's towns and also towns, consisting of Swaffham's very own indication celebrating the famous Pedlar of Swaffham, which remains in the edge of the market area just opposite the old school's gateways. Carter was a far-off cousin of the archaeologist and egyptologist Howard Carter who spent a lot of his childhood in the community.