Watton is a market community in the area of Breckland within the English area of Norfolk. The A1075 Dereham-Thetford road and the B1108 Brandon-Norwich Road satisfy at a crossroads here, where the town established, about 20 miles (32 kilometres) 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 households, 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 Train, opened in October 1869 as well as closed in June 1964. The line itself was closed in April 1965. In 1984 Watton was twinned with the Lower Rhine (Niederrhein) community of Weeze, Germany, with the succeeding twinning charter being officially signed in 1987.