Watton
Watton is a market town in the district of Breckland within the English region of Norfolk. The A1075 Dereham-Thetford road and also the B1108 Brandon-Norwich Road satisfy at a crossroads below, where the community created, about 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 Train, opened in October 1869 and also 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 succeeding twinning charter being formally checked in 1987.
