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 train station gets on the Great Eastern Main Line from London to Norwich. The town lies in the valley of the River Waveney, round a mere covering 6 acres (2.4 ha) as well as as much as 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 acceptation either ditch or embankment. Diss has a number of historic buildings, 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 previous RAF Thorpe Abbotts landing field. In March 2006, Diss ended up being the third community in the UK to join Cittaslow, a global organisation advertising the concept of "Slow Towns". Nevertheless, it has since left this initiative.