Swaffham
Swaffham is a market community and also civil parish in the Breckland Area as well as English area of Norfolk. It is positioned 12 miles (19 kilometres) east of King's Lynn as well as 31 miles (50 kilometres) west of Norwich. The civil parish has a location 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 raised to 7,258, in 3,258 houses, at the 2011 census. For the functions of city government, the parish drops within the district of Breckland. On the west side of Swaffham Market Place are several old structures which for several years housed the historic Hamond's Grade school, as a plaque on the wall surface of the main building clarifies. The Hamond's Grade school developing more recently concerned act as the 6th type for the Hamond's High School, yet that usage has given that discontinued. Harry Carter, the grammar school's art teacher of the 1960s, was in charge of a great number of the carved village signs that are currently found in most of Norfolk's communities and towns, including Swaffham's own sign commemorating the legendary Pedlar of Swaffham, which is in the corner of the market location simply opposite the old school's gateways. Carter was a distant cousin of the archaeologist and egyptologist Howard Carter that spent a lot of his youth in the town.
