Swaffham
Swaffham is a market town and also civil parish in the Breckland District and English county of Norfolk. It is located 12 miles (19 kilometres) east of King's Lynn and also 31 miles (50 kilometres) west of Norwich. The civil parish has a location of 11.42 sq mi (29.6 km2) as well as in the 2001 census had a population of 6,935 in 3,130 families, which enhanced to 7,258, in 3,258 homes, at the 2011 census. For the functions of local government, the church falls 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 major building describes. The Hamond's Grammar School developing more recently concerned act as the sixth type for the Hamond's High School, however that use has because ceased. Harry Carter, the grade school's art instructor of the 1960s, was in charge of a variety of the sculpted town signs that are currently found in many of Norfolk's towns and villages, including Swaffham's very own indication commemorating the legendary Pedlar of Swaffham, which is in the corner of the marketplace location simply opposite the old-fashioned's gates. Carter was a far-off relative of the excavator and egyptologist Howard Carter that invested much of his childhood in the community.
