Ashcroft Manor Ranch

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Ashcroft Manor Ranch, known also as Ashcroft Manor, is an historic ranch in the Thompson Country of British Columbia, Canada, founded by Clement Francis Cornwall (later Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia) and his brother. Ashcroft Manor's main house and buildings are adjacent to the Trans-Canada Highway and the Canadian Pacific mainline, which named its whistlestop at the ranch's road crossing after it. The manor house lies at the junction for southern cutoff from the highway to the town of Ashcroft below on the Thompson River.

In the heyday of the Cornwall brothers, Ashcroft Manor was one of the centres of British-style country life in the British Columbia Interior, and was famous for its fox-hunting parties and line of hounds, as well as race horses, and drew the early province's high society to these and other entertainments.

The ranch is one of two locations proposed for a new waste storage facility for Greater Vancouver, the other being the old Logan Lake mine pit nearby on the Thompson Plateau to the southeast. Overlooking Ashcroft Manor to the north is the Cache Creek Waste Disposal Facility near the town of the same name.