Banwell
Banwell is a village 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 yielded flint applies from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic as well as Bronze Age. It was also occupied 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 ft) high financial institution and ditch. The remains of a Romano-British vacation home were uncovered in 1968. It included a courtyard, wall surface and also bath house near the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website recommend it came 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 occupied by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled ditch, part of which has actually because been included into a rhyne. The parish belonged to the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was built as a diocesans house in the 14th and also 15th century on the website of a reclusive foundation. It was restored in 1870 by Hans Rate, and is currently a Grade II * listed structure. Neighboring is a small structure presented to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a little fire-engine. It functioned as the fire station up until the 1960s and also now houses a tiny museum of souvenirs connected to the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It notes the reburial site of an ancient human skeletal system located in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist that had found the bones, had them reinterred and noted the website with the stone with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle constructed in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Originally developed as his residence, it is now a resort and restaurant and is a Grade II * listed building.