Banwell is a town as well as civil parish on the River Banwell in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. Its population was 2,919 according to the 2011 census. Banwell Camp, east of the village, is a univallate hillfort which has actually generated flint executes from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. It was also occupied in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was dug deep into by J.W. Quest of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is surrounded by a 4 metres (13 ft) high bank and ditch. The remains of a Romano-British vacation home were found in 1968. It consisted of a courtyard, wall surface and bathroom home close to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website suggest it came under disuse in the 4th century. Earthworks from farm buildings, 420 metres (1,380 feet) south of Gout House Farm, occupied from the 11th to 14th centuries where archaeological remains suggest the website was first inhabited in the Romano-British period. The elevated area which was inhabited by the Bower House was bordered by a water loaded ditch, part of which has since been incorporated into a rhyne. The parish belonged to the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a bishops home in the 14th as well as 15th century on the site of a monastic foundation. It was refurbished in 1870 by Hans Cost, as well as is currently a Grade II * listed structure. Neighboring is a little building provided to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It served as the fire station up until the 1960s and currently houses a tiny museum of souvenirs related to the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It notes the reburial site of an old human skeleton discovered in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist who had located the bones, had them reinterred as well as noted the site with the stone with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle integrated in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Initially built as his residence, it is currently a hotel and also dining establishment as well as is a Grade II * listed structure.