Brandon
Brandon is a town and also civil church in the English area of Suffolk. Brandon is located in the Breckland location on the boundary of Suffolk with the adjoining county of Norfolk. Surrounded by Forestry Commission and also farming land it is considered a country community. The town's current population is recorded as 9,636 people in the 2011 UK Census. Brandon has three institutions; 2 main, Forest Academy and also Glade Academy; and one Secondary school, IES Breckland. Brandon's population has actually gradually increased given that the Second World War as a result of migration. After the war, there was an influx of servicemen from Poland that cleared up in the town and also in close-by Weeting, Norfolk. The Cold War saw numerous American service individuals and their families billeted in and around the town. The Greater London Council managed the building of a huge Council estate off Thetford Road as well as Bury Road in the 1970s and many London families were relocated to Brandon throughout that time.