Brandon
Brandon is a village and civil church in the English region of Suffolk. Brandon is located in the Breckland area on the boundary of Suffolk with the adjoining region of Norfolk. Bordered by Forestry Commission and farming land it is thought about a rural community. The community's current population is recorded as 9,636 individuals in the 2011 UK Census. Brandon has three schools; two key, Forest Academy and also Glade Academy; and one Senior high school, IES Breckland. Brandon's population has actually progressively increased considering that the Second World War because of immigration. After the war, there was an increase of servicemen from Poland that cleared up in the community and also in nearby Weeting, Norfolk. The Cold War saw lots of American solution people and their family members billeted around the community. The Greater London Council supervised the building of a big Council estate off Thetford Road and also Bury Road in the 1970s and several London family members were moved to Brandon during that time.