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People

Bancroft (surname) Bancroft is a Toponymy, 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 translit ...

Places

United States

Bancroft, Idaho Bancroft is a city in the Gem Valley in Caribou County, Idaho, United States. The population was 299 at the 2020 census, and 377 at the 2010 census. History The community was named after William H. Bancroft, a railroad official, and is a rai ...

, a city * Bancroft, Iowa, a city *

Bancroft, Kentucky Bancroft is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. It was formally incorporated by the state assembly in 1970.Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Bancroft, Kentucky". Accessed ...

, a home rule-class city *

Bancroft, Louisiana Bancroft is an unincorporated area in Louisiana. It is in Beauregard Parish Beauregard Parish () is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,549. The parish seat and most populous municipal ...

, an unincorporated area * Bancroft, Maine, a township * Bancroft, Michigan, a village *

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. It ...

, Minnesota, a neighborhood * Bancroft, Missouri, an unincorporated community *

Bancroft, Nebraska Bancroft is a village in Cuming County, Nebraska, Cuming County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 496 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. John Neihardt, who later became Nebraska's poet laureate, lived in Bancroft for t ...

, a village * Bancroft, South Dakota, a town *

Bancroft, West Virginia Bancroft is a town in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States, along the Kanawha River. The population was 389 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area. History The town was named for George Bancroft, a coa ...

, a town *

Bancroft, Wisconsin Bancroft is an unincorporated census-designated place in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population is 526. It is included in the Stevens Point, Wisconsin Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Bancroft ...

, a census-designated place * Bancroft County, Iowa, a former county * Bancroft Creek, a stream in Minnesota * Bancroft Township, Freeborn County, Minnesota * Bancroft Township, Cuming County, Nebraska

Elsewhere

Bancroft, Queensland Bancroft is a rural locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Bancroft had a population of 98 people. Geography There are two neighbourhoods in Bancroft: * Birnam in the north-west of the locality () * Dakiel in ...

, Australia, a locality in the North Burnett Region *

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

, Canada, a town * Bancroft, Milton Keynes, UK, a district * 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 ...

, Copperbelt Province, Zambia, a town *

Bancroft (crater) Bancroft is a small, bowl-shaped impact crater located to the southwest of Archimedes (crater), Archimedes on the Mare Imbrium. A wide, shallow depression runs from the rim of Bancroft southeast to the Montes Archimedes. There are some clefts at ...

, a crater on the Moon

Arts and entertainment

* ''Bancroft'' (TV series), a 2017 British TV series *

Bancroft Pons Solar Pons is a fictional detective created by August Derleth as a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Robert Bloch wrote of the series, "During a span of a century there have been literally hundreds of Sherlockian imitations, rang ...

, a fictional character in the Solar Pons stories by August Derleth * George Bancroft, protagonist of the 1980 film '' Hangar 18'' *

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, d ...

, 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, California, Cudahy, opened 1927) ...

, an American public middle school *

Bancroft Middle School (San Leandro, California) San Leandro Unified School District is a publicly funded unified school district in San Leandro, Alameda County, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, between Oakland to the northwest and Hayward to the southeast. The district ...

, an American public middle school *

Bancroft School Bancroft School in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, is an independent, co-educational, PreK–12, college-preparatory day school. Students typically live in Central Massachusetts and MetroWest Boston. The school campus measures . ...

, an American private K-12 school in Worcester, Massachusetts *

Bancroft School of Massage Therapy The Bancroft School of Massage Therapy is a private for-profit trade school in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1950 by Henry LaFleur, proprietor of the Bancroft Health Center, a facility specializing in Swedish massage and sports ma ...

, an American trade school in Worcester, Massachusetts *

Bancroft's School Bancroft's School is a co-educational private day school in Woodford Green, London. The school has around 1,100 pupils aged between 7 and 18, around 250 of whom are pupils of the Preparatory School and 850 of whom are pupils of the Senior Sch ...

, a British independent school in Woodford Green, London

Ships

* 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 * ''Bancroft'' (motor vessel), a 1925 ship preserved in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States

Other uses

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

, a dormitory at the United States Naval Academy * Bancroft Hall, a dormitory at

Phillips Exeter Academy Phillips Exeter Academy (often called Exeter or PEA) is an Independent school, independent, co-educational, college-preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire. Established in 1781, it is America's sixth-oldest boarding school and educates an es ...

Bancroft Library The Bancroft Library is the primary special-collections library of the University of California, Berkeley. It was acquired from its founder, Hubert Howe Bancroft, in 1905, with the proviso that it retain the name Bancroft Library in perpetuity. ...

, 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 real binary system where the components have equal saturation pressure and exhibit azeotropy *

Bancroft PLLC Bancroft PLLC (formerly Bancroft Associates PLLC) was an American law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. The firm was founded in Washington, D.C. by former Assistant Attorney General Viet D. Dinh. Bancroft specialized in Supreme Court and ap ...

, an American law firm {{disambiguation, geo, schools, ship