Watton
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 fulfill at a crossroads here, where the community created, concerning 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Norwich. The civil parish covers an area of 7.2 km2 (2.8 sq mi) with about 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 Anglo-Saxon negotiation. A station at Watton, on the Thetford & Watton Train, opened in October 1869 and also enclosed 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 succeeding twinning charter being formally checked in 1987.