ABOUT SWAFFHAM
By Stella Rimmington, Author

There's something about the place. A perfect market town.

I have lived a few miles away from Swaffham for over twenty years. I have always admired the balance between modernity and tradition that the town has managed to strike and always felt at home amongst its people. There's something about the place. A perfect market town, perfectly placed in the heart of Norfolk's perfect Breckland.

When we decided to make a drama series about a country town solicitor I was very sure that the producers and writers should visit Swaffham and perhaps gain some inspiration from it, for characters and story-lines. I had secretly hoped, but hadn't banked on the possibility, that they might in fact be so struck by the town that they would want to film there and use it as the basis for our fictional town of Market Shipborough. And so it turned out.

All of us connected to Kingdom are grateful to the town and its hospitable people for allowing us the opportunity to make the series there. Dozens of actors, production staff and film technicians have fallen in love with the town and with this part of Norfolk. Swaffham is a wonderful place to visit, a wonderful place to stay and a wonderful place to know.

Stephen Fry.