Diss
Diss is an English market community and electoral ward in the East Anglian area of Norfolk, near the boundary with Suffolk. It had a population of 7,572 in 2011. Diss train station is on the Great Eastern Main Line from London to Norwich. The community lies in the valley of the River Waveney, round a mere covering 6 acres (2.4 ha) and approximately 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 word meaning either ditch or embankment. Diss has a number of historic buildings, including a very early 14th-century parish church and an 1850s corn exchange still in operation. Four miles east of Diss is the 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum at the previous RAF Thorpe Abbotts landing field. In March 2006, Diss became the 3rd community in the UK to sign up with Cittaslow, an international organisation advertising the idea of "Slow Towns". Nonetheless, it has since left this initiative.
