Diss
Diss is an English market community and also electoral ward in the East Anglian region 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 plain covering 6 acres (2.4 ha) and also up to 18 feet (5.5 m) deep, although there is another 51 feet (16 m) of mud. The town takes its name from dic an Anglo-Saxon acceptation either ditch or embankment. Diss has a number of historical structures, including an 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 former RAF Thorpe Abbotts landing field. In March 2006, Diss became the 3rd town in the UK to join Cittaslow, an international organisation promoting the idea of "Slow Towns". However, it has because left this initiative.
