Ashcroft may refer to:
Places
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Ashcroft, British Columbia
Ashcroft ( 2016 population: 1,558) is a village in the Thompson Country of the Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is downstream from the west end of Kamloops Lake, at the confluence of the Bonaparte and Thompson Rivers, and is in the Tho ...
, a village in Canada
**Ashcroft House in
Bagpath, Gloucestershire, England—eponym of the Canadian village
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Ashcroft, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia
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Ashcroft, Colorado
Ashcroft, originally known as Castle Forks City then Chloride until 1882, was a mining town located ten miles (16 km) south of Aspen, Colorado, United States. A few buildings remain standing as a testament to the town's past.
History Early y ...
, a former U.S. mining town, south of Aspen
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Ashcroft (Geneva, New York), a historic house
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Ashcroft Technology Academy, a secondary school in London, UK
People
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Catherine Ashcroft
Catherine Ashcroft (born 8 April 1988) is an English musician (Irish Folk). She was born in Halifax.
Career
She is a self-taught musician who plays the Uilleann pipes and whistles.
In 2008 Ashcroft recorded her first CD "Take Flight and F ...
, English musician (Irish Folk)
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Charlie Ashcroft, English footballer
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Chloe Ashcroft, British television presenter
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Christina Ashcroft (born 1964), Canadian sport shooter
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Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, British occultist
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Edgar Arthur Ashcroft (1864–1938), invented zinc extraction process in Australia
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Ernest Ashcroft
Ernest "Ernie" J. Ashcroft (28 February 1925 – May 1985) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and coached in the 1950s and 1960s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, En ...
(b. 1925), English professional rugby league footballer
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Lee Ashcroft, English footballer
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Jay Ashcroft, American politician
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Jimmy Ashcroft
James Ashcroft (12 September 1878 – 9 April 1943) was an English football goalkeeper.
Born in Liverpool, Ashcroft began his career with several local sides, briefly signing as an amateur with Everton, before moving south and joining South ...
, English footballer
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John Ashcroft, the 79th Attorney General of the United States under George W. Bush (2001–2005)
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Ken Ashcroft, Australian rugby league footballer
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Marcus Ashcroft, Australian rules footballer
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Michael Arbuthnot Ashcroft, British codebreaker in Hut 8 during WW2
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Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, British businessman and member of the House of Lords
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Neil Ashcroft (1938–2021), condensed matter physicist
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Peggy Ashcroft, English actress
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Ray Ashcroft, English actor
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Richard Ashcroft, English musician, frontman for The Verve
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Stella Ashcroft (born 2002), New Zealand gymnast
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William Ashcroft
William Ascroft (1832–1914) was a late 19th century British landscape painter best known for his colour sketches commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts of sunsets over Chelsea, London, Chelsea in England in the years after the 1883 explosion ...
, English artist
See also
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Ascroft, a surname
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