Swaffham is a market community and also civil parish in the Breckland Area and English area of Norfolk. It is positioned 12 miles (19 kilometres) east 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 in the 2001 census had a population of 6,935 in 3,130 households, which increased to 7,258, in 3,258 households, 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 structures which for several years housed the historical Hamond's Grammar School, as a plaque on the wall of the major structure describes. The Hamond's Grammar School constructing latterly concerned act as the sixth kind for the Hamond's High School, but that use has given that stopped. Harry Carter, the grade school's art instructor of the 1960s, was responsible for a great number of the sculpted town indications that are now discovered in much of Norfolk's communities and towns, consisting of Swaffham's very own sign celebrating the epic Pedlar of Swaffham, which remains in the edge of the marketplace area simply opposite the old-fashioned's gates. Carter was a far-off cousin of the excavator and also egyptologist Howard Carter that spent much of his childhood years in the town.