Watton is a market community in the area of Breckland within the English area of Norfolk. The A1075 Dereham-Thetford road and also the B1108 Brandon-Norwich Road fulfill at a crossroads below, where the town established, concerning 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 citizens 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) included a church, manor house and also Anglo-Saxon negotiation. A station at Watton, on the Thetford & Watton Railway, 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) community of Weeze, Germany, with the subsequent twinning charter being officially signed in 1987.