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.

Bancroft has some unmissable villages nearby like Haddenham, Caldecotte, Blue Bridge, New Bradwell, Tathall End, Castlethorpe, and Weston Underwood.

Milton Keynes, Olney, High Wycombe, Buckingham, and Aylesbury are great places to visit near Bancroft if you like towns.

Willen Lake, and Campbell Park are some of Bancroft best parks to visit near Bancroft.

Don't miss Willen Lake, and Thorney Country Park's lakes if visiting the area around Bancroft.

The Centre:mk, and Eden Shopping Centre are some of Bancroft best shopping centres to visit near Bancroft.

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.

There are a number of country parks near to Bancroft including 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:

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