Cranworth is a village and civil parish in the Breckland district of mid-Norfolk, East Anglia, England, in the United Kingdom. It has an area of 20.63 km2 (7.97 sq mi) with an estimated population of 415 in 2007, increasing to 419 taken at the 2011 Census. The villages name means 'Crane/heron enclosure'. Cranworth village has a church, St. Marys in the Benefice of Reymerston. The civil parish was created from the four previous ecclesiastical parishes of Cranworth, Letton, Southburgh and Woodrising by the County of Norfolk Review Order, 1935.