Cranworth
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Cranworth is a village in the Breckland district
Breckland (district)
Breckland District is a local government district in Norfolk, England. Its council is based in East Dereham.Breckland District derives its name from the Breckland landscape region, a gorse covered sandy heath of south Norfolk and north Suffolk...

 of mid-Norfolk
Norfolk
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, East Anglia
East Anglia
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, England
England
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 in the United Kingdom
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.It has an area of 20.63 km² (8 sq mi) with an estimated population
Population
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of 415 as of 2007.

It has a church, St.Marys in the Benefice of Reymerston.

It was created as a civil parish from the four previous ecclesiastical parishes of Cranworth, Letton, Southburgh and Woodrising by the County of Norfolk Review Order, 1935.
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