We are too small to warrant a Parish Council, so we have a Parish Meeting, as determined by the Local Government Act 1972.  The Parish Meeting  currently elects three main officers annually -  a Chair, Clerk and Treasurer.  The posts are voluntary and unpaid.

By law, Parish Meetings must take place at least twice each year, and every parishioner is encouraged to attend; all may speak and vote at the meetings.

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Hunston is a small Suffolk hamlet and civil parish set in a conservation area of Mid-Suffolk, nearly 9 miles east of the centre of Bury St Edmunds.

It is set in flattish farmland which is mostly arable. Hunston (called Hunterstuna in 1096) has a name that goes back a thousand years to the sound of the chase and galloping horses.

'Huns' is a much abused, much contracted version of the original hunteres - ie hunter. 'Ton' means 'a settlement' and so it was from here that our ancestors went out into the marshes and woods in search of rabbit, deer, foxes, beavers, bears, wolves and boar.

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