Diss
Diss is an English market town and also 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 community depends on the valley of the River Waveney, round a simple covering 6 acres (2.4 ha) as well as as much as 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 variety of historical buildings, consisting of a very 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 previous RAF Thorpe Abbotts landing field. In March 2006, Diss became the third community in the UK to sign up with Cittaslow, an international organisation promoting the principle of "Slow Towns". Nevertheless, it has because left this effort.
