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Diss is a market town and electoral ward in Norfolk, England, close to the border with the neighbouring East Anglian county of Suffolk, with a population of 7,572 . Diss railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line, which runs from London to Norwich. The town lies in the valley of the River Waveney, around a mere that covers 6 acres . The mere is up to 18 feet deep, although there is another 51 feet of mud.The town takes its name from dic an Anglo-Saxon word meaning either ditch or embankment. Diss has a number of historic buildings, including an early 14th-century parish church, and a museum.
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  • 1. Bressingham Steam Museum and Gardens Bressingham
    Bressingham Steam & Gardens is a steam museum and gardens located at Bressingham , west of Diss in Norfolk, England. The site has several narrow gauge rail lines and a number of types of steam engines and vehicles in its collection and is also the home of the national Dad's Army exhibition.
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  • 2. The 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum Diss
    The term Link Trainer, also known as the Blue box and Pilot Trainer is commonly used to refer to a series of flight simulators produced between the early 1930s and early 1950s by the Link Aviation Devices, Inc, founded and headed by Ed Link, based on technology he pioneered in 1929 at his family's business in Binghamton, New York. During World War II, they were used as a key pilot training aid by almost every combatant nation. The original Link Trainer was created in 1929 out of the need for a safe way to teach new pilots how to fly by instruments. Ed Link used his knowledge of pumps, valves and bellows gained at his father's Link Piano and Organ Company to create a flight simulator that responded to the pilot's controls and gave an accurate reading on the included instruments. More than 5...
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  • 3. Redgrave and Lopham Fen Diss
    Redgrave and Lopham Fens is a 127 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Thelnetham in Suffolk and Diss in Norfolk. It is a National Nature Reserve, a Ramsar internationally important wetland site, a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, and part of the Waveney and Little Ouse Valley Fens Special Area of Conservation. It is managed by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust.It is the largest remaining area of river valley fen in England and consists of a number of different fen types, including saw-sedge beds, as well as having areas of open water, heathland, scrub and woodland. It is also one of only three sites in the UK where the fen raft spider Dolomedes plantarius is known to be found.
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  • 5. Knettishall Heath Diss
    Knettishall is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the south bank of the River Little Ouse , in 2005 it had a population of 40. From the 2011 census the population of the village was not maintained and it is included in the civil parish of neighbouring Hopton. The parish contains Knettishall Heath Country Park and the remains of RAF Knettishall, a World War II airfield.
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  • 7. Diss Mere Diss
    Diss is a market town and electoral ward in Norfolk, England, close to the border with the neighbouring East Anglian county of Suffolk, with a population of 7,572 . Diss railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line, which runs from London to Norwich. The town lies in the valley of the River Waveney, around a mere that covers 6 acres . The mere is up to 18 feet deep, although there is another 51 feet of mud.The town takes its name from dic an Anglo-Saxon word meaning either ditch or embankment. Diss has a number of historic buildings, including an early 14th-century parish church, and a museum.
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  • 8. Diss Museum Diss
    Diss is a market town and electoral ward in Norfolk, England, close to the border with the neighbouring East Anglian county of Suffolk, with a population of 7,572 . Diss railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line, which runs from London to Norwich. The town lies in the valley of the River Waveney, around a mere that covers 6 acres . The mere is up to 18 feet deep, although there is another 51 feet of mud.The town takes its name from dic an Anglo-Saxon word meaning either ditch or embankment. Diss has a number of historic buildings, including an early 14th-century parish church, and a museum.
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  • 10. Burston Strike School Museum Diss
    Burston is a village in Norfolk, England, 3 miles north of Diss. The civil parish is called Burston and Shimpling. It covers an area of 9.17 square kilometres and had a population of 568 in 234 households at the 2011 Census. Burston is famous as the site of the Burston Strike School, the longest strike in history. In 1949, the Strike School building was registered as an educational charity. There are four self-perpetuating trustees who manage the school and try to develop it as a museum, visitor centre, educational archive and village amenity. A rally to commemorate the school and the longest strike in UK history has been organised on the first Sunday in September every year since 1984 by the Transport and General Workers' Union and supported by other unions. St Mary's Church, though recog...
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  • 11. The Corn Hall Diss
    This is a list of windmills and windpumps in the United Kingdom.
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  • 14. Wingfield Barns Diss
    Wingfield is a village in the English county of Suffolk. It is found 7 miles east of Diss, signposted off B1118, near Eye. Wingfield Castle, which is now a private house, was for many centuries the home of the Wingfield family and their heirs, the De La Poles, Earls and Dukes of Suffolk. The Wingfields were a very ancient family and Sir John de Wingfield was chief of staff to the Black Prince. Sir John de Wingfield founded the great 14th century church at Wingfield and his tomb can be found within it. Here visitors can see fine church monuments of Sir John de Wingfield and the De la Pole family. The church contains the effigy of Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk, and his wife Katherine. This Earl died of dysentery at the Siege of Harfleur whilst with Henry V on his Agincourt campaign of 1...
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  • 15. THE BELL INN Diss
    This is a list of department stores of the United Kingdom. In the case of department store groups, the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. The list is broken into currently trading ; defunct groups and defunct .
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