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Diss
Diss is an English market town 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 train 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 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 number of historical buildings, 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 strip. In March 2006, Diss became the 3rd community in the UK to sign up with Cittaslow, a worldwide organisation promoting the principle of "Slow Towns". Nonetheless, it has actually because left this initiative.