Watton
Watton is a market community in the district of Breckland within the English area of Norfolk. The A1075 Dereham-Thetford road and also the B1108 Brandon-Norwich Road meet at a crossroads below, where the town developed, regarding 20 miles (32 km) west of Norwich. The civil parish covers a location of 7.2 km2 (2.8 sq mi) with about 6,800 inhabitants in 3,000 homes, enhancing to a population of 7,202 in 3,226 at the 2011 Census. The Domesday Book recorded that Watton (or Wadetuna) included a church, manor house and Anglo-Saxon settlement. A station at Watton, on the Thetford & Watton Train, opened up in October 1869 and enclosed June 1964. The line itself was enclosed April 1965. In 1984 Watton was twinned with the Lower Rhine (Niederrhein) town of Weeze, Germany, with the subsequent twinning charter being formally signed in 1987.
