Watton is a market town in the district of Breckland within the English area of Norfolk. The A1075 Dereham-Thetford road and the B1108 Brandon-Norwich Road satisfy at a crossroads below, where the town created, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Norwich. The civil parish covers a location of 7.2 km2 (2.8 sq mi) with around 6,800 inhabitants in 3,000 households, raising 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 also Anglo-Saxon settlement. A station at Watton, on the Thetford & Watton Train, opened up in October 1869 and closed in June 1964. The line itself was closed in April 1965. In 1984 Watton was twinned with the Lower Rhine (Niederrhein) community of Weeze, Germany, with the subsequent twinning charter being officially signed in 1987.