Watton is a market town in the district 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 town established, regarding 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 residents in 3,000 houses, 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 and Anglo-Saxon settlement. A station at Watton, on the Thetford & Watton Train, opened up in October 1869 and closed in June 1964. The line itself was closed in 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.