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People

Bancroft (surname) Bancroft is a place name-derived English surname originating in the 13th Century with three purported origins: the locale Bancroft in Ardeley, Hertfordshire; the locale of Bancroft Field in Soham, Cambridgeshire; or an Old English transliteration ...

Places

Australia

Bancroft, Queensland Bancroft is a rural locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Bancroft had a population of 96 people. Geography There are two neighbourhoods in Bancroft: * Birnam in the north-west of the locality () * Dakiel in t ...

, a locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia

Canada

Bancroft, Ontario Bancroft () is a town located on the York River in Hastings County in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was first settled in the 1850s by United Empire Loyalists and Irish immigrants. From the mid-1950s to about 1982, mining was the primary ...

United Kingdom

* Bancroft, Milton Keynes

United States

* Bancroft, California *

Bancroft, Idaho Bancroft is a city in the Gem Valley in Caribou County, Idaho, United States. The population was 377 at the 2010 census. Description The community was named after William H. Bancroft, a railroad official, and is a railroad town along Old Hi ...

Bancroft, Iowa Bancroft is a city in Kossuth County, Iowa, United States. The population was 699 at the time of the 2020 census. History Bancroft was platted in 1881. It was named for George Bancroft, an American historian, government official, and diplomat. ...

* Bancroft, Kentucky *

Bancroft, Louisiana Bancroft is an unincorporated area in Louisiana. It is in Beauregard Parish near the border with Texas. The North Bancroft Field is a geological area dating to the Eocene era that was drilled for oil. Bancroft was a lumber settlement that had 250 ...

* Bancroft, Maine * Bancroft, Michigan *

Bancroft, Minneapolis Bancroft is a neighborhood within the Powderhorn community in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Its boundaries are East 38th Street to the north, Chicago Avenue to the west, East 42nd Street to the south and Cedar Avenue to the east. The ...

, Minnesota *

Bancroft, Missouri Bancroft is an unincorporated community in northeast Daviess County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the ...

* Bancroft, Nebraska * Bancroft, South Dakota * Bancroft, West Virginia *

Bancroft, Wisconsin Bancroft is an unincorporated census-designated place in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population is 535. It is included in the Stevens Point, Wisconsin Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Bancroft wa ...

* Bancroft Creek, a stream in Minnesota *

Bancroft Township (disambiguation) Bancroft Township may refer to: * Bancroft Township, Freeborn County, Minnesota * Bancroft Township, Cuming County, Nebraska {{geodis Township name disambiguation pages ...

(multiple places)

Zambia

*The former name of

Chililabombwe Chililabombwe (formerly named Bancroft) is a small town in Copperbelt Province, Zambia. It is located near the Democratic Republic of the Congo border. The name Chililabombwe means 'place of the croaking frog' in the local language of Lamba. The ...

Literature

* Bancroft Pons, a fictional character in the Solar Pons stories by August Derleth *

Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...

, an American literary award from Columbia University

Schools

Bancroft Middle School (Los Angeles, California) This is a list of schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The concept of zones is explained on the LAUSD website. K–12 schools Zoned schools * Elizabeth Learning Center (only K–8 is zoned) ( Cudahy, opened 1927) * James A. Fos ...

, an American public middle school located in Los Angeles, California * Bancroft Middle School (San Leandro, California), an American public middle school located in San Leandro, California * Bancroft School, an American private K-12 school in Worcester, Massachusetts * Bancroft School of Massage Therapy, an American trade school in Worcester, Massachusetts *

Bancroft's School Bancroft's School is a co-educational independent day school located in Woodford Green, London Borough of Redbridge. The school currently has around 1,000 pupils aged between 7 and 18, around 200 of whom are pupils of the Preparatory School an ...

, a British independent school in Woodford Green, London

Ships

* ''Bancroft'' (motor vessel), a 1925 ship preserved in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States * USCS ''Bancroft'', a schooner in commission as a survey ship in the United States Coast Survey from 1846 to 1862 * USS ''Bancroft'', the name of more than one United States Navy ship * USS ''George Bancroft'' (SSBN-643), a United States Navy fleet ballistic missile submarine in commission from 1966 to 1993

Other

* Bancroft (crater), a crater on the Moon * ''Bancroft'' (TV series), a 2017 British TV series *

Bancroft Hall Bancroft Hall, at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is said to be the largest contiguous set of academic dormitories in the U.S. Bancroft Hall, named after former U.S. Secretary of the Navy, and famous historian/author Geor ...

, a dormitory at the United States Naval Academy * Bancroft Hall,a dormitory at Phillips Exeter Academy * Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, United States *

Bancroft Mills Bancroft Mills is an abandoned mill complex along Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. It has been the site of some of the earliest and most famous mills near Wilmington and was the largest and longest running complex along ...

, a factory in Wilmington, Delaware, United States *

Bancroft Point A Bancroft point is the temperature where an azeotrope occurs in a binary system. Although vapor liquid azeotropy is impossible for binary systems which are rigorously described by Raoult's law, for real systems, azeotropy is inevitable at tempera ...

, a real binary system where the components have equal saturation pressure and exhibit azeotropy * Bancroft PLLC, a U.S. law firm * Bancroft, a character in the 1980 film '' Hangar 18'' {{disambiguation, geo