Watton
Watton is a market community in the district of Breckland within the English area of Norfolk. The A1075 Dereham-Thetford road and the B1108 Brandon-Norwich Road fulfill at a crossroads right here, where the community established, regarding 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Norwich. The civil parish covers a location of 7.2 km2 (2.8 sq mi) with about 6,800 occupants in 3,000 families, 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 negotiation. A station at Watton, on the Thetford & Watton Train, opened up in October 1869 as well as 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 formally checked in 1987.
