Swaffham
Swaffham is a market town as well as civil parish in the Breckland District and also English region of Norfolk. It is positioned 12 miles (19 kilometres) eastern of King's Lynn and 31 miles (50 kilometres) west of Norwich. The civil parish has a location of 11.42 sq mi (29.6 km2) and in the 2001 census had a population of 6,935 in 3,130 households, which raised to 7,258, in 3,258 households, at the 2011 census. For the functions of local government, the church falls within the area of Breckland. On the west side of Swaffham Market Place are several old structures which for years housed the historical Hamond's Grammar School, as a plaque on the wall of the primary building explains. The Hamond's Grammar School developing latterly concerned serve as the sixth form for the Hamond's High School, but that usage has because discontinued. Harry Carter, the grade school's art teacher of the 1960s, was accountable for a great number of the carved village indicators that are now located in a lot of Norfolk's communities and towns, including Swaffham's own indicator honoring the fabulous Pedlar of Swaffham, which remains in the edge of the marketplace location just opposite the traditional's gates. Carter was a far-off relative of the excavator and egyptologist Howard Carter who invested much of his youth in the community.