Watton
Watton is a market community in the district of Breckland within the English region of Norfolk. The A1075 Dereham-Thetford road and also the B1108 Brandon-Norwich Road fulfill at a crossroads here, where the community created, about 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Norwich. The civil parish covers a location of 7.2 km2 (2.8 sq mi) with about 6,800 residents in 3,000 families, raising 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 as well as Anglo-Saxon settlement. A station at Watton, on the Thetford & Watton Train, opened up 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 subsequent twinning charter being officially signed in 1987.