Diss
Diss is an English market community and electoral ward in the East Anglian region of Norfolk, near the boundary 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 community hinges on the valley of the River Waveney, round a plain covering 6 acres (2.4 ha) and up to 18 feet (5.5 m) deep, although there is one more 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 number of historical buildings, 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 previous RAF Thorpe Abbotts airfield. In March 2006, Diss became the third town in the UK to join Cittaslow, a global organisation advertising the concept of "Slow Towns". However, it has given that left this effort.
