Watton
Watton is a market town in the area 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 community developed, regarding 20 miles (32 km) west of Norwich. The civil parish covers an area of 7.2 km2 (2.8 sq mi) with about 6,800 occupants 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) featured a church, manor house as well as Anglo-Saxon settlement. A station at Watton, on the Thetford & Watton Railway, opened 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) town of Weeze, Germany, with the subsequent twinning charter being formally checked in 1987.
