Banwell
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, east of the town, is a univallate hillfort which has produced flint implements from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was also occupied 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 feet) high bank and ditch. The remains of a Romano-British vacation home were discovered in 1968. It included a courtyard, wall surface and bath residence near the River Banwell. Artefacts from the site suggest it came 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 duration. The increased location which was occupied by the Bower House was surrounded by a water filled ditch, part of which has actually since been integrated right into a rhyne. The church was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was constructed as a diocesans house in the 14th and 15th century on the website of a monastic foundation. It was restored in 1870 by Hans Rate, as well as is now a Grade II * listed building. Close-by is a tiny structure provided to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It served as the station house up until the 1960s as well as currently houses a tiny museum of memorabilia associated with the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood dates from 1842. It marks the reburial website of an ancient human skeleton discovered in a cavern near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist that had actually found the bones, had them reinterred as well as noted the site with the rock with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle integrated in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Originally developed as his residence, it is now a resort and also restaurant and also is a Grade II * listed structure.
