Hainford (originally Haynford) is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

Hainford is located 5.6 miles (9.0 km) south of Aylsham and 6.7 miles (10.8 km) north of Norwich.

Hainford's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for 'enclosure ford.'

In the Domesday Book, Hainford is listed as a settlement of 9 households hundred of Taverham. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of Roger the Poitevin.

Hainford Hall was built in the 18th century and is now derelict. The hall was at one time the property of Jonathan Worrell who owned 139 enslaved people in Barbados.

During the Second World War, several anti-invasion defences were built in Hainford. Furthermore, a stick of Luftwaffe bombs were dropped in the nearby Waterloo Plantation in an attempt to hit Stratton Strawless Hall which was being used as a radar installation.^{[dubious – discuss]}

There were two aircraft crashes in Hainford during the Second World War. In 1942, a Bristol Beaufighter of No. 68 Squadron RAF crashed in the parish likely flying from RAF Coltishall and in April 1945 a Consolidated B-24 Liberator of the 458th Bomb Group, 754th Bombardment Squadron crashed in the parish, two of the seven crew survived.

According to the 2021 census, Hainford has a population of 1,037 people which shows an increase from the 989 people recorded in the 2011 census.