Diss
Diss is an English market town and also electoral ward in the East Anglian region of Norfolk, near the border with Suffolk. It had a population of 7,572 in 2011. Diss railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line from London to Norwich. The town depends on the valley of the River Waveney, round a mere covering 6 acres (2.4 ha) and also approximately 18 feet (5.5 m) deep, although there is another 51 feet (16 m) of mud. The town takes its name from dic an Anglo-Saxon word meaning either ditch or embankment. Diss has a variety of historical structures, including a very early 14th-century parish church as well as 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 field. In March 2006, Diss ended up being the third town in the UK to join Cittaslow, an international organisation promoting the idea of "Slow Towns". Nevertheless, it has actually because left this initiative.
