Diss
Diss is an English market community as well as electoral ward in the East Anglian region of Norfolk, near the border with Suffolk. It had a population of 7,572 in 2011. Diss train station is on the Great Eastern Main Line from London to Norwich. The community depends on the valley of the River Waveney, round a mere covering 6 acres (2.4 ha) and as much as 18 feet (5.5 m) deep, although there is an additional 51 feet (16 m) of mud. The community takes its name from dic an Anglo-Saxon acceptation either ditch or embankment. Diss has a number of historic buildings, consisting of an early 14th-century parish church and also an 1850s corn exchange still in operation. 4 miles east of Diss is the 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum at the previous RAF Thorpe Abbotts landing strip. In March 2006, Diss became the 3rd town in the UK to join Cittaslow, an international organisation advertising the concept of "Slow Towns". Nonetheless, it has since left this initiative.
