Watton
Watton is a market community in the area of Breckland within the English county of Norfolk. The A1075 Dereham-Thetford road and the B1108 Brandon-Norwich Road meet at a crossroads here, where the community developed, concerning 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 residents 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 negotiation. A station at Watton, on the Thetford & Watton Railway, opened up in October 1869 and also 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 succeeding twinning charter being formally checked in 1987.
