Starston Wind Pump Traditional Cache
Hanoosh: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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Brenda
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A well camo’d cache close to the picturesque small wooden wind pump in the centre of this pretty little village.
The Starston village sign features the wind pump that was used to transport water from the Beck up to Starston Place, which was demolished during the early 1900s. The wind pump can easily be seen from the roadside and is on a public footpath for easy access.
Between 1856 and 1866 it had its own railway station on the Waveney Valley Line before it was shut to passenger trains through lack of usage. Freight and passenger through trains continued until the Beeching axe fell in the 1960s.
The village had a pub called ‘The Gate’ until the 1950s. This was turned into a shop, which then closed in the early 1980s. The building is now a private house and is still called The Gate. Admire the paintwork on it, I painted it for the residents! The village school closed in 1968
Between 2001 & 2004 the village sported its own micro brewery ‘The Alewife’ run by a local resident from an outhouse in her garden. Sadly this is no longer running.
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