Diss
Diss is an English market town and also selecting ward in the East Anglian region 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 town hinges 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 an additional 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 variety of historic structures, consisting of a very early 14th-century parish church and also an 1850s corn exchange still in operation. 4 miles east of Diss is the 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum at the former RAF Thorpe Abbotts landing field. In March 2006, Diss became the 3rd community in the UK to sign up with Cittaslow, an international organisation promoting the idea of "Slow Towns". Nonetheless, it has since left this campaign.
