Banwell is a town and also 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, eastern of the town, is a univallate hillfort which has actually produced flint executes from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was also inhabited in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was excavated by J.W. Quest of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is bordered by a 4 metres (13 ft) high bank as well as ditch. The remains of a Romano-British rental property were found in 1968. It included a courtyard, wall surface and also bathroom residence close to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website suggest it fell into 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 duration. The increased location which was inhabited by the Bower House was surrounded by a water filled ditch, part of which has actually considering that been integrated into a rhyne. The church belonged to the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was constructed as a bishops residence in the 14th as well as 15th century on the site of a monastic structure. It was renovated in 1870 by Hans Price, and is now a Grade II * listed structure. Neighboring is a little structure provided to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It worked as the fire station up until the 1960s and now houses a small gallery of memorabilia related to the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It notes the reburial website of an ancient human skeleton located in a cavern near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur excavator who had located the bones, had them reinterred as well as marked the site with the stone with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle built in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Initially constructed as his residence, it is currently a hotel and dining establishment and is a Grade II * listed structure.