Banwell
Banwell is a town and civil parish on the River Banwell in the North Somerset area 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 yielded flint implements from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was additionally occupied in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was excavated by J.W. Quest of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is surrounded by a 4 metres (13 ft) high financial institution and ditch. The remains of a Romano-British villa were discovered in 1968. It included a courtyard, wall as well as bath house near the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website recommend it fell under disuse in the 4th century. Earthworks from farm buildings, 420 metres (1,380 feet) south of Gout House Farm, inhabited from the 11th to 14th centuries where archaeological remains recommend the website was first inhabited in the Romano-British period. The increased location which was occupied by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled ditch, part of which has considering that been included right into a rhyne. The church was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a bishops residence in the 14th and also 15th century on the website of a monastic structure. It was refurbished in 1870 by Hans Cost, and is currently a Grade II * listed structure. Nearby is a little structure presented to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It acted as the station house until the 1960s and also now houses a small gallery of memorabilia related to the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days 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 found the bones, had them reinterred and also noted the site with the stone with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle built in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Initially built as his house, it is currently a hotel and also dining establishment as well as is a Grade II * listed building.