Watton
Watton is a market town 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 here, where the town developed, 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 inhabitants in 3,000 houses, 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 in October 1869 as well as 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 officially signed in 1987.
