Swaffham
Swaffham is a market town and also civil parish in the Breckland Area and also 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 also in the 2001 census had a population of 6,935 in 3,130 homes, which boosted to 7,258, in 3,258 homes, at the 2011 census. For the purposes of city government, the parish falls within the area of Breckland. On the west side of Swaffham Market Place are several old buildings which for years housed the historical Hamond's Grammar School, as a plaque on the wall of the main building describes. The Hamond's Grammar School constructing more recently concerned act as the 6th kind for the Hamond's High School, but that use has actually because discontinued. Harry Carter, the grammar school's art teacher of the 1960s, was accountable for a variety of the carved village signs that are currently found in many of Norfolk's communities and also towns, consisting of Swaffham's very own sign celebrating the fabulous Pedlar of Swaffham, which is in the edge of the market location just opposite the traditional's entrances. Carter was a far-off relative of the archaeologist and also egyptologist Howard Carter who spent much of his youth in the community.
