The Star Inn is a seventeeth century family run freehouse.  East Tytherley, the smallest village in the Test Valley, is in an area celebrated for its beautiful woodland and chalk streams, and here in front of the village cricket green you will find us. Our aim first and foremost is to be a village inn and we welcome everyone.  Quite simply we try to give a genuinely warm welcome to all whilst providing the best quality ales and food that we can. 

Alan, Lesley & Justin Newitt

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Paddy Burt review

Paddy Burt is "impressed by the originality of the dinner menu and the delightful breakfast at the Star Inn"  Read her review here

Saturday Times 22  March 2008   10 Top Gastropubs

"This remodelled country inn with rooms has instant appeal, with its pretty courtyard-style garden at the front and views over the village cricket green at the back.  Inside, there are leather sofas, tub chairs, beams and log-burners.  Lunch is alight affair, while the modern British evening menu is driven by local seasonal produce and assured skill.  Expect roasted pork tenderloin, served with sage polenta, savoy cabbage and a haricot bean, smoked bacon and vegetable casserole, and to finish, perhaps a panettone bread and butter pudding with apricot coulis"

Saturday Times 23 May 2008 10 Top Alfresco Restaurants

"There's a pretty courtyard-style garden and views over the village cricket green out back.  "

For other reviews :

AA recognised    

Hampshire Hospitality 

Ladies who lunch

Hampshire view magazine review 

As featured on UKPubfinder

WE'RE WINNERS AGAIN IN 2008.  For the second year running we have been awarded the Hampshire Hospitality Award.

Winners of the 2007 Hampshire Hospitality Award. 

A quality accreditation scheme and Local produce award

awarded by Tourism South East, Hampshire County Council,

and Test Valley Borough Council

For the visitor The Star makes the ideal place from which to discover the delights of the area.  Explore the charms of the many villages and the historic cathedral cities of Salisbury and Winchester, the market town of Romsey with its Norman Abbey, and Broadlands home of the late Lord Mountbatten just five miles away.   The New Forest, Mottisfont Abbey and the Roman walled city of Southampton are all a short drive.  So much to see and do  ...

Motorhomes very welcome.  Members of the Motorhome Stopover Club.