Swaffham
Swaffham is a market community and also civil parish in the Breckland Area and also English region 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 an area of 11.42 sq mi (29.6 km2) as well as in the 2001 census had a population of 6,935 in 3,130 homes, which raised to 7,258, in 3,258 households, at the 2011 census. For the functions of local government, the parish drops within the district 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 surface of the main structure describes. The Hamond's Grammar School constructing latterly involved work as the 6th form for the Hamond's High School, but that use has actually since stopped. Harry Carter, the grammar school's art educator of the 1960s, was accountable for a great number of the carved village indicators that are now discovered in many of Norfolk's communities as well as towns, consisting of Swaffham's own indication commemorating the fabulous Pedlar of Swaffham, which remains in the edge of the market area just opposite the old school's gates. Carter was a far-off cousin of the archaeologist as well as egyptologist Howard Carter who spent a lot of his childhood years in the community.
