Watton
Watton is a market community in the district of Breckland within the English area of Norfolk. The A1075 Dereham-Thetford road as well as the B1108 Brandon-Norwich Road fulfill at a crossroads below, where the town 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 residents in 3,000 families, increasing 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 negotiation. A station at Watton, on the Thetford & Watton Railway, opened 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) community of Weeze, Germany, with the subsequent twinning charter being officially checked in 1987.