Bancroft is a Town in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Bancroft postcode: MK13 0PH

Retail in Bancroft

There are great places to visit near Bancroft including some great villages, towns, parks, lakes, shopping centres, historic buildings, country parks and airports.

The area around Bancroft boasts some of the best villages including Haddenham, Caldecotte, Blue Bridge, New Bradwell, Tathall End, Castlethorpe, and Weston Underwood.

Towns to visit near Bancroft include Milton Keynes, Olney, High Wycombe, Buckingham, and Aylesbury.

Don't miss Willen Lake, and Campbell Park's parks if visiting the area around Bancroft.

Bancroft has some unmissable lakes nearby like Willen Lake, and Thorney Country Park.

Shopping Centres to visit near Bancroft include The Centre:mk, and Eden Shopping Centre.

Church of St Simon and St Jude, St Peter and St Paul - Olney, Weston Underwood, Church of St James the Great - Hanslope, The Old Gaol, and Waddesdon Manor are some of Bancroft best historic buildings to visit near Bancroft.

Country Parks to visit near Bancroft include Thorney Country Park.

There are a several good airports in the area around Bancroft like Wycombe Air Park.

Bancroft History

There are some historic monuments around Bancroft:

• Shrunken medieval village at Caldecotte
• Bradwell castle mound: a motte and bailey castle 80m north east of St. Lawrence's Church.
• Tickford Bridge
• Deserted medieval settlement at Filgrave, immediately west of Rectory Farm
• A bowl barrow on Church Hill 200m south of church
• Moated site, fishpond and associated earthworks 150m west of Loughton Manor
• Moated site 70m south of Long Plantation, Hanslope Park
• The Toot: a motte and bailey castle and later manorial complex 450m south west of St Mary's Church
• Moated site, fishponds and deserted medieval village of Tattenhoe, 300m west of Home Park Farm.
• Medieval manor of Simpson
• Bowl barrow at junction of Crofts End and Bedford Road
• Moated site with associated earthworks, 770m south of St Mary's Church, south of the junction of Childs Way and Fulmer Street
• Moated site and associated fishpond south of Mill Lane
• A medieval manorial complex comprising a twin moated site, fishpond and associated earthworks 750m west of St Mary's Church
• Fishpond in Water Spinney 600m SE of St Giles's Church Tattenhoe
• Bradwell Bury: a moated site and associated manor house remains at Moat House
• Olney Bridge
• Ashton Manor moated site
• Roman town of Magiovinium and Roman fort
• Remains of the church and churchyard of St Mary Magdalen
• Group of ring ditches and enclosures at Tyringham
• Shrunken Medieval Village, Woughton on the Green
• Ravenstone Priory, moats and fishponds
• Tyringham Bridge
• Castlethorpe Castle: a motte and bailey, possible ringwork and associated earthworks 200m south-east of Castlethorpe Lodge
• Roman villa SE of Cosgrove Hall
• Moated site, fishponds and associated earthworks, west of All Saints Church, Milton Keynes Village.
• Motte and bailey castle, deserted village and monastic grange at Old Wolverton
• Bradwell Abbey: a Benedictine priory, chapel and fishpond
• Moated site 200m north east of St Nicholas's Church
• Moated site and fishponds at Great Woolstone
• Moated site and fishpond at Old Rectory Farm.
• Snelshall Benedictine Priory: a moated priory site and fishponds north of Briary Plantation
• Moated site known as Caves Manor immediately east of the Manor House
• Moated site, fishponds and associated earthworks 150m south-east of Haversham Manor
• Wolverton iron trunk aqueduct
• Secklow Hundred mound: a moot at the junction of North Row and North Ninth Street.
• Civil War defences in Bury Field
• Great Linford Brickworks
• Moated site and fishponds 280m south-east of St Lawrence's Church