Swaffham Market Place

Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 10 Oct 2010

Swaffham is a market town in the Breckland district of Norfolk. During the last 50 years the town has grown both in size and in number, its population presently counting just over 6000 and still growing. Not too much damage was done to the buildings during the 1960s and 1970s and the market place still has Georgian buildings and a domed rotunda. The town looks almost the same as it did in the 19th century, however, the railway and the cinema have gone. The town legend tells of the 'Pedlar of Swaffham' who went to London and was about to throw himself off London Bridge when a stranger dissuaded him and related a dream in which he saw buried treasure in a distant village. The pedlar recognised the place as his own garden so he went home and dug up two pots of gold. He is now the town's symbol.

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