Starston Village
Welcome to Starston, a charming village set in the beautiful Norfolk countryside. With its rich history, friendly community, and peaceful rural setting, Starston is a wonderful place to live, visit, and explore. This website is your hub for local news, upcoming events, and everything that makes our village life unique.
Featured Events
Discover our exciting upcoming events.
End Of Summer Party: Saturday 6th September
Residents of Starston won’t have missed the work which has been done on the Glebe Meadow and higher upstream on the Beck Meadow. On the Glebe, the work carried out was to remove the risk of the beck undercutting the…
Exhibition: Mandy and Russell Carter, 14th and 15th June 2025
What a treat! Russell’s stunning wildlife photographs and Mandy’s beautiful pencil drawings...
Starston’s village litter pick: Saturday, August 16th
Come and join in our efforts to keep Starston beautiful! Please meet at 11:00am at the Jubilee Hall, to receive rubbish bags and prepare ourselves before heading off...
An Introduction to Starston
Starston is a small and vibrant rural parish in South Norfolk with a strong sense of community. It is a short distance from the market town of Harleston, and the parish extends about four miles from north to south and one and a half miles from east to west. The land is gently undulating and slopes towards the Beck and the River Waveney, which forms the boundary with Suffolk. According to the 2021 census, the population of the parish was 333, made up of a little over 140 households.
Starston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ‘Sterestuna’, the name deriving perhaps from a combination of the old English word for an enclosure or farmstead, ‘Tun’, and the old Norse personal name ‘Styrr’…