Watton is a market community in the area of Breckland within the English area of Norfolk. The A1075 Dereham-Thetford road as well as the B1108 Brandon-Norwich Road satisfy at a crossroads here, where the town established, concerning 20 miles (32 km) west of Norwich. The civil parish covers a location of 7.2 km2 (2.8 sq mi) with about 6,800 residents in 3,000 households, 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 as well as Anglo-Saxon settlement. A station at Watton, on the Thetford & Watton Railway, opened up in October 1869 and also enclosed 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 succeeding twinning charter being officially checked in 1987.