STARSTON, a parish in the hundred of EARSHAM, county of NORFOLK, 1 mile (N. N. W.) from Harleston, containing 437 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £15, and in the patronage of the Duke of Norfolk, who appoints a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.