Banwell
Banwell is a town and 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 village, is a univallate hillfort which has actually produced flint executes from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic as well as Bronze Age. It was additionally inhabited in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was excavated by J.W. Search of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is bordered by a 4 metres (13 feet) high bank and also ditch. The remains of a Romano-British villa were discovered in 1968. It included a yard, wall surface and bath residence near the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website suggest it fell under disuse in the 4th century. Earthworks from farm buildings, 420 metres (1,380 ft) south of Gout House Farm, inhabited from the 11th to 14th centuries where archaeological remains recommend the website was first occupied in the Romano-British duration. The elevated area which was inhabited by the Bower House was surrounded by a water loaded ditch, part of which has actually since been included into a rhyne. The parish became part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a diocesans house in the 14th and 15th century on the website of a reclusive foundation. It was renovated in 1870 by Hans Cost, and is now a Grade II * listed structure. Neighboring is a tiny structure provided to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a little fire-engine. It functioned as the fire station until the 1960s as well as currently houses a tiny museum of memorabilia related to the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood dates from 1842. It marks 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 and noted the site with the rock with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle integrated in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Originally built as his residence, it is now a resort and also dining establishment and is a Grade II * listed building.
