Diss
Diss is an English market town and selecting ward in the East Anglian county of Norfolk, near the border with Suffolk. It had a population of 7,572 in 2011. Diss train station gets on the Great Eastern Main Line from London to Norwich. The community depends on the valley of the River Waveney, round a simple covering 6 acres (2.4 ha) and up to 18 feet (5.5 m) deep, although there is another 51 feet (16 m) of mud. The community takes its name from dic an Anglo-Saxon acceptation either ditch or embankment. Diss has a variety of historical structures, consisting of a very 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 former RAF Thorpe Abbotts airfield. In March 2006, Diss became the third town in the UK to sign up with Cittaslow, a worldwide organisation promoting the principle of "Slow Towns". However, it has because left this initiative.