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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, 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 primar ...

United Kingdom

Bancroft, Milton Keynes Stantonbury is a district and civil parish of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The toponym ''Stanton'' is derived from an Old English term for "stone-built farmstead" and the ''bury'' element from the French family who held it in 1235. ...

United States

* Bancroft, California * Bancroft, Idaho *

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, Maine *

Bancroft, Michigan Bancroft is a village in Shiawassee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 545 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Shiawassee Township. History Bancroft was platted in 1877 when the railroad was extended to that ...

* Bancroft, Minneapolis, Minnesota *

Bancroft, Missouri Bancroft is an unincorporated community in northeast Daviess County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and te ...

Bancroft, Nebraska Bancroft is a village in Cuming County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 495 at the 2010 census. John Neihardt, who later became Nebraska's poet laureate, lived in Bancroft for twenty years and wrote many of his works there. His stud ...

* Bancroft, South Dakota *

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 c ...

* Bancroft, Wisconsin *

Bancroft Creek Bancroft Creek is a stream in Freeborn County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The creek was named for its location within Bancroft Township. See also *List of rivers of Minnesota Minnesota has 6,564 natural rivers and streams that cumulativel ...

, 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 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 *

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. Fosha ...

, an American public middle school located in Los Angeles, California *

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 ha ...

, an American public middle school located in San Leandro, California *

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 . The s ...

, 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 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) Bancroft is a small, bowl-shaped impact crater located to the southwest of 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 the edge of the mare ...

, 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 (not for oneself) la, Finis Origine Pendet (The End Depends Upon the Beginning) gr, Χάριτι Θεοῦ (By the Grace of God) , location = 20 Main Street , city = Exeter, New Hampshire , zipcode ...

Bancroft Library The Bancroft Library in the center of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is the university's primary special-collections library. It was acquired from its founder, Hubert Howe Bancroft, in 1905, with the proviso that it retai ...

, 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