Scarning is a village and civil parish in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England. It covers an area of 14.13 km2 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 west of Dereham and 17 miles west of Norwich, on the old turnpike road between Dereham and Swaffham.