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Scarning

Scarning is a village and civil parish in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England.

The place

Scarning is a village and civil parish in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England. It covers an area of 14.12 km2 (5.45 sq mi) and had a population of 2,932 in 1,092 households at the 2001 census, reducing to 2,906 in the same number of households in the 2011 census. It lies 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Dereham and 17 miles (27 km) west of Norwich, on the old turnpike road between Dereham and Swaffham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Scarning

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Potter and Scarning Fens, East Dereham

    Potter and Scarning Fens, East Dereham is a 6.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Dereham in Norfolk, England. It is part of the Norfolk Valley Fens Special Area of Conservation.

    2.8 km · site of special scientific interest in Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Scarning Fen

    Scarning Fen is a 4-hectare nature reserve west in Dereham in Norfolk. It is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.

    2.6 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dillington Carr

    Dillington Carr is a 55-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Dereham in Norfolk, England. This valley, which lies along a tributary of the River Wensum, has extensive irrigation reservoirs and areas of carr woodland.

    3.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Dereham Rush Meadow

    Dereham Rush Meadow is a 22.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Dereham in Norfolk, England. This is an area of grassland and alder carr in the valley of a tributary of the River Wensum.

    2.7 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Dereham in Norfolk · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Holly Farm Meadow, Wendling

    Holly Farm Meadow, Wendling is a 2.6 hectares biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Dereham in Norfolk, England. The meadow lies in the valley of the River Wensum and contains a line of calcareous springs that support fen grassland with a diverse flora.

    2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Honeypot Wood

    Honeypot Wood is a 9.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Dereham in Norfolk, England. It is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.

    3.1 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Scarning

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 98 km · London Luton (LTN), 123 km · East Midlands (EMA), 150 km
Stations
Dereham railway station, 4 km · Wendling railway station, 2.4 km
  • London, Essex → Scarning
    147 km · quickest by road, 3h · £16–21
  • London → Scarning
    147 km · quickest by road, 3h · £16–21
  • Luton, Luton → Scarning
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £14–18
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Scarning

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Scarning. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are no passenger ferry terminals in Norfolk.
  • Get inGreater Anglia, Stena Line and Nederlandse Spoorwegen run a "Rail and Sail to Holland" deal, which includes travel to any Greater Anglia station from Harwich International Port, following the ferry trip from Hook of Holland.

From Wikivoyage: Norfolk (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    267 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    282 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    416 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    508 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    541 km

If you know how people move in Scarning – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Scarning

  • Derehamtown in Norfolk, England3.6 km
  • Gressenhallvillage in Breckland, Norfolk, England, UK3.1 km
  • Wendlingvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom2.4 km
  • Longhamvillage in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom3.9 km