SCARNING, a parish in the hundred of LATINPITCH,
county of NORFOLK, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from
East Dereliam, containing 498 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £9. 19. Sir
John Lombe, Bart, was patron in 1808. The church
is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. A free school
was founded here and liberally endowed by William
Seeker, in 1604.