Watton
Watton is a market community in the area of Breckland within the English county of Norfolk. The A1075 Dereham-Thetford road as well as the B1108 Brandon-Norwich Road fulfill at a crossroads below, where the community established, concerning 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 households, 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 settlement. A station at Watton, on the Thetford & Watton Train, opened up 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 subsequent twinning charter being officially checked in 1987.