Watton is a market town in the area of Breckland within the English county of Norfolk. The A1075 Dereham-Thetford road and the B1108 Brandon-Norwich Road satisfy at a crossroads right here, where the town developed, regarding 20 miles (32 km) west of Norwich. The civil parish covers a location of 7.2 km2 (2.8 sq mi) with around 6,800 occupants in 3,000 houses, 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 and Anglo-Saxon negotiation. A station at Watton, on the Thetford & Watton Train, opened in October 1869 and closed in 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 subsequent twinning charter being formally checked in 1987.