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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 o ...

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

United Kingdom

* Bancroft, Milton Keynes

United States

* Bancroft, California * Bancroft, Idaho * Bancroft, Iowa *

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 1 ...

Bancroft, Louisiana Bancroft is an unincorporated area in Louisiana. It is in Beauregard Parish Beauregard Parish (french: Paroisse de Beauregard) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 35,654. The parish seat ...

Bancroft, Maine Bancroft is a township in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 57 at the 2020 census. On July 1, 2015 the town voted to deorganize and become part of the unorganized territory of South Aroostook. Geography According to the ...

* Bancroft, Michigan * Bancroft, Minneapolis, Minnesota * Bancroft, Missouri *

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 is a town in northwest Kingsbury County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 19 at the 2010 census. History Bancroft had its start in the late 1880s when the railroad was extended to that point. The town most likely was name ...

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 ...

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 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) (multiple places)

Zambia

*The former name of Chililabombwe

Literature

* Bancroft Pons, a fictional character in the Solar Pons stories by August Derleth * Bancroft Prize, an American literary award from Columbia University

Schools

* Bancroft Middle School (Los Angeles, California), 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, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, is an independent, co-educational, PreK–12, college-preparatory day school. Students typically live in Central Massachusetts and MetroWest, MetroWest Boston. ...

, 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 mas ...

, an American trade school in Worcester, Massachusetts * Bancroft's School, 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 mar ...

, a crater on the Moon * ''Bancroft'' (TV series), a 2017 British TV series * Bancroft Hall, 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 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 specializes in Supreme Court and ...

, a U.S. law firm * Bancroft, a character in the 1980 film '' Hangar 18'' {{disambiguation, geo