The village of Diss came from the Diss family of Essex, located in South East England. Abraham Diss, the father of Frederick Diss, and the grandfather of William and Charles Diss, was born in Colchester in 1777.
The area's wealth became from farming the land and helped build the prosperity of towns like Diss. As mentioned in the Domesday Book the town was known as a 'moderately sized Royal Manor of no great importance', but when the market was established it brought alot of wealth into the town.
Then flemish weavers arrived from the otherside of the Channel and for many many years wool and linen became the town's main industries, the buildings from which these were made still remain in the town centre.
In 1640, there was a big fire and it was the water from the lake, which covers just over 5 acres, that saved all the houses in the street. Diss gets its name from 'Dic' or 'Disce' which is a Saxon word which means 'ditch of standing water'.
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