text: Swaffham () is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland District and English county of Norfolk. It is situated  east of King's Lynn and  west of Norwich.
  The civil parish has an area of  and in the 2001 census had a population of 6,935 in 3,130 households, which increased to 7,258, in 3,258 households, at the 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Breckland.
  History
  The name of the town derives from the Old English Swǣfa hām = "the homestead of the Swabians"; some of them presumably came with the Angles and Saxons.