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Ashcroft is a surname
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Ashcroft may also refer to:
- Ashcroft, GloucestershireGloucestershireGloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
, EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, which is the namesake of:- Ashcroft, British Columbia, a village in Canada
- Ashcroft, New South WalesAshcroft, New South WalesAshcroft is a suburb in South-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Ashcroft is located 35 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool.-History:...
, a suburb of Sydney, Australia - Ashcroft Technology AcademyAshcroft Technology AcademyAshcroft Technology Academy, formerly ADT College, is a state secondary school within the English academy programme in Wandsworth, London. It has specialist status in Technology. Its current headmaster is Mr Marcus Barker. The school has been awarded with the Charter Mark, Investors in People and...
, a London academy, from September 2007. - Ashcroft Incorporated, an instrumentation company
- Ashcroft, ColoradoAshcroft, ColoradoAshcroft originally known as Castle Forks City and then Chloride until 1882, was a mining town located ten miles south of Aspen near Castle Creek, in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. A few buildings remain standing as a testament to the town's past.-The early years:In the spring of 1880 two...
, in the US, was a mining town located 10 miles south of AspenAspenPopulus section Populus, of the Populus genus, includes the aspen trees and the white poplar Populus alba. The five typical aspens are all native to cold regions with cool summers, in the north of the Northern Hemisphere, extending south at high altitudes in the mountains. The White Poplar, by...
People with the surname Ashcroft
- Charlie AshcroftCharlie AshcroftCharlie Ashcroft was an English footballer.His first club was Eccleston Juniors, whom he left in May 1946 for Liverpool...
, English footballer - Chloe AshcroftChloe AshcroftChloe Ashcroft was a presenter on several BBC children's TV programmes, including Play School, Play Away, Hokey-Cokey and Pie in the Sky. She also appeared in the Doctor Who story Resurrection of the Daleks playing Professor Laird...
, British television presenter - Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiDolores Ashcroft-NowickiDolores Ashcroft-Nowicki is a British occult author, psychic, and esoteric practitioner. An associate of Walter Ernest Butler, she succeeded him as Director of Studies of the Servants of the Light.-Biography:...
, British occultist - Lee AshcroftLee AshcroftLee Ashcroft is a former footballer turned manager who is currently managing Northern Premier League side Kendal Town. In his playing career he played as a striker for Preston North End, West Bromwich Albion and Grimsby Town, having also played for Notts County, Wigan Athletic, Port Vale,...
, English footballer - Jimmy AshcroftJimmy AshcroftJames "Jimmy" Ashcroft 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 Southern League side Gravesend United in 1899...
, English footballer - John AshcroftJohn AshcroftJohn David Ashcroft is a United States politician who served as the 79th United States Attorney General, from 2001 until 2005, appointed by President George W. Bush. Ashcroft previously served as the 50th Governor of Missouri and a U.S...
, the 79th Attorney General of the United States - Ken AshcroftKen AshcroftKen Ashcroft is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1950s and 60s. He played in Australia's major competition - the New South Wales Rugby League premiership....
, Australian rugby league footballer - Marcus AshcroftMarcus AshcroftMarcus Ashcroft is a former professional Australian rules footballer, who holds the records for the most games for the Brisbane Bears/Brisbane Lions. He is currently on the coaching panel of the Gold Coast Football Club.-Early life:Ashcroft was born on the Gold Coast to a family from Melbourne...
, Australian rules footballer - Michael Ashcroft, British businessman and member of the House of Lords
- Peggy AshcroftPeggy AshcroftDame Peggy Ashcroft, DBE was an English actress.-Early years:Born as Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft in Croydon, Ashcroft attended the Woodford School, Croydon and the Central School of Speech and Drama...
, English actress - Ray AshcroftRay AshcroftRay Ashcroft is an English actor.He played Ringo Starr in the biopic TV movie Birth of the Beatles .Then, he has played DS Geoff Daly in The Bill from 1996 to 2000, and he has also appeared in Coronation Street and Emmerdale.-External links:...
, English actor - Richard AshcroftRichard AshcroftRichard Paul Ashcroft is an English singer-songwriter. He was the lead singer and occasional guitarist of alternative rock band The Verve from their formation in 1990 until their split in 1999, and continues as a lead vocalist working with guitars and keyboards...
, English musician, frontman for The VerveThe VerveThe Verve were an English rock band formed in 1989 in Wigan by lead vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones, and drummer Peter Salisbury. Guitarist and keyboardist Simon Tong later became a member. Beginning with a psychedelic sound indebted to shoegazing and space... - William AshcroftWilliam AshcroftWilliam Ashcroft was a late 19th Century British artist best known for his color sketches of sunsets over England in the years after the 1883 explosion of the Krakatoa volcano, recording details otherwise unavailable before the invention of color photography....
, English artist