Bancroft
Bancroft is a suburb in Stantonbury, Milton Keynes, England. Bancroft is situated nearby to the suburb Bradwell, as well as near Blue Bridge.Places of Interest
Highlights include Bancroft Roman Villa and Milton Keynes Museum.
Bancroft Roman Villa
Archaeological site
Photo: Stuart and Fiona Jackson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bancroft Roman Villa is a Roman villa in the Bancroft district of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England. Originally a winged-corridor house, the villa eventually became a grand building with mosaics and a formal garden.
Milton Keynes Museum
Museum
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Milton Keynes Museum is an independent local museum in the parish of Wolverton and Greenleys in Milton Keynes, England. It is mostly run by volunteers with a small number of paid staff.
Blue Bridge
Bridge
The Blue Bridge is an 1830s bridge over the West Coast Main Line near Wolverton in Milton Keynes, England. Built to take a farm track over a new cutting for the London and Birmingham Railway, it was designed by Robert Stephenson, the L&BR's chief engineer and extended in the 1880s when the line was widened.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bradville and Bradwell Abbey.
Bradville
Suburb
Stantonbury is a district and civil parish of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, situated roughly 2 miles north of Central Milton Keynes. The toponym Stanton is derived from an Old English term for "stone-built farmstead" and the bury element from the French family Barri who held it in 1235.
Bradwell Abbey
Suburb
Photo: Bogbumper, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bradwell Abbey or Bradwell Priory is a scheduled monument and urban studies site in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It was a Benedictine priory, founded around 1154 and dissolved in 1524.
Wolverton
Town
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wolverton is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, England. It is located in the north-west of the city, beside the West Coast Main Line, the Grand Union Canal and the river Great Ouse.
Bancroft
- Type: Suburb
- Category: locality
- Location: Stantonbury, Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.05387° or 52° 3′ 14″ northLongitude
-0.79128° or 0° 47′ 29″ westElevation
266 feet (81 metres)Open location code
9C4X3635+GFOpenStreetMap ID
node 186064715OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
13266817
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