Swaffham
Swaffham is a market community and also civil parish in the Breckland Area and also English region of Norfolk. It is located 12 miles (19 kilometres) eastern of King's Lynn and also 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 houses, at the 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, the church drops within the district of Breckland. On the west side of Swaffham Market Place are numerous old buildings which for years housed the historic Hamond's Grammar School, as a plaque on the wall of the main structure clarifies. The Hamond's Grammar School constructing latterly came to serve as the sixth form for the Hamond's High School, but that usage has given that ceased. Harry Carter, the grade school's art educator of the 1960s, was responsible for a great number of the carved village indications that are currently found in much of Norfolk's towns and also towns, consisting of Swaffham's own indicator commemorating the epic Pedlar of Swaffham, which is in the edge of the marketplace area just opposite the old school's gates. Carter was a remote cousin of the archaeologist and egyptologist Howard Carter that spent a lot of his childhood years in the town.