Watton
Watton is a market town in the district of Breckland within the English county of Norfolk. The A1075 Dereham-Thetford road and the B1108 Brandon-Norwich Road satisfy at a crossroads below, where the community developed, concerning 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Norwich. The civil parish covers a location of 7.2 km2 (2.8 sq mi) with around 6,800 residents 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) featured a church, manor house and also Anglo-Saxon settlement. A station at Watton, on the Thetford & Watton Railway, opened up in October 1869 and enclosed 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 signed in 1987.
