Diss
Diss is an English market town and electoral ward in the East Anglian county of Norfolk, near the boundary 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 hinges 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 buildings, including an early 14th-century parish church and also an 1850s corn exchange still in operation. Four miles east of Diss is the 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum at the former RAF Thorpe Abbotts landing strip. In March 2006, Diss became the 3rd town in the UK to join Cittaslow, an international organisation advertising the principle of "Slow Towns". Nevertheless, it has actually considering that left this campaign.