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Diss in Norfolk County England History and GeographyDISS, a market town and parish in the hundred of DISS, county of NORFOLK, 22 miles (S.S.W.) from Norwich, and 92 (N.E.) from London, containing 2764 inhabitants. This place, formerly Disce or Dice, was held in royal demesne in the reign of Henry I., and in that of Edward I. became the property of Robert Fitzwalter, who obtained for it the privilege of a market. The town is pleasantly situated near the river Waveney, by which it is separated on the south from the county of Suffolk, and consists of several streets, of which the principal are spacious and well paved: the houses are in general well built, and have a neat and handsome appearance: the inhabitants are amply supplied with water; and at the extremity of the town, and nearly in the centre of the parish, is a mere of seven acres in extent, which abounds with eels. The principal branch of manufacture is that of hempen cloth. The market is on Friday, which is also for the sale of yarn and linen cloth: the fair is on the 8th of November, for cattle and toys. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £33. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Rev. W. Manning. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient structure in the early and decorated styles of English architecture, with a square embattled tower: the nave is lighted by a fine range of double clerestory windows; and the south porch has a semicircular-headed door-way, over which is a large window of seven lights: it was probably erected by some of the Fitz-Walters, about the close of the thirteenth or fourteenth century. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends and Independents. A charity school, originally endowed at Palgrave, in the county of Suffolk, was, in 1713, removed to this town, and kept in a building which was formerly the town-hall. Ralph de Diceto, Dean of St. Paul's in the reign of Henry II.; Walter, a Carmelite friar of Norwich, confessor to John of Gaunt, were natives of this parish; of which also, John Skelton, poet-laureat to Henry VIII., and styled by Erasmus 'the light and ornament of English scholars,' was rector. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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