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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, a city * Bancroft, Iowa, a city * Bancroft, Kentucky, a home rule-class city * Bancroft, Louisiana, an unincorporated area * Bancroft, Maine, a township * Bancroft, Michigan, a village * Bancroft, Minneapolis, Minnesota, a neighborhood * Bancroft, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Bancroft, Nebraska, a village * Bancroft, South Dakota, a town * Bancroft, West Virginia, a town * Bancroft, Wisconsin, 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, 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, Copperbelt Province, Zambia, a town * Bancroft (crater), a crater on the Moon

Arts and entertainment

* ''Bancroft'' (TV series), a 2017 British TV series * Bancroft Pons, a fictional character in the Solar Pons stories by August Derleth * George Bancroft, protagonist of the 1980 film '' Hangar 18'' * Bancroft Prize, an American literary award from Columbia University

Schools

* Bancroft Middle School (Los Angeles, California), an American public middle school * Bancroft Middle School (San Leandro, California), an American public middle school * 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, 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, University of California at Berkeley, United States * Bancroft Mills, 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, an American law firm {{disambiguation, geo, schools, ship