Diss
Diss is an English market community 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 gets on the Great Eastern Main Line from London to Norwich. The community depends on the valley of the River Waveney, round a mere covering 6 acres (2.4 ha) as well as 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 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. Four miles east of Diss is the 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum at the former RAF Thorpe Abbotts landing field. In March 2006, Diss ended up being the 3rd town in the UK to sign up with Cittaslow, an international organisation promoting the principle of "Slow Towns". However, it has given that left this campaign.
