Diss
Diss is an English market town and electoral ward in the East Anglian county 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) as well as 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 variety of historical structures, consisting of 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 airfield. In March 2006, Diss came to be the third community in the UK to sign up with Cittaslow, an international organisation promoting the principle of "Slow Towns". Nonetheless, it has actually since left this initiative.
