Brandon
Brandon is a village and civil parish in the English area of Suffolk. Brandon is located in the Breckland area on the border of Suffolk with the adjoining county of Norfolk. Bordered by Forestry Commission and agricultural land it is taken into consideration a rural town. The town's existing population is recorded as 9,636 people in the 2011 UK Census. Brandon has three colleges; two key, Forest Academy and Glade Academy; and also one High School, IES Breckland. Brandon's population has actually progressively boosted considering that the Second World War because of migration. After the war, there was an influx of servicemen from Poland that resolved in the town as well as also in close-by Weeting, Norfolk. The Cold War saw several American solution people and also their families billeted in and around the community. The Greater London Council looked after the building of a huge Council estate off Thetford Road and also Bury Road in the 1970s and also numerous London families were moved to Brandon during that time.