Banwell
Banwell is a village as well as 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 village, is a univallate hillfort which has actually generated flint carries out from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic as well as Bronze Age. It was likewise inhabited in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was dug deep into by J.W. Search of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is surrounded by a 4 metres (13 ft) high bank as well as ditch. The remains of a Romano-British suite were uncovered in 1968. It consisted of a courtyard, wall and also bathroom home close to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website recommend it fell into 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 site was first occupied in the Romano-British duration. The raised location which was occupied by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled ditch, part of which has actually because been integrated right into a rhyne. The church was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a diocesans residence in the 14th as well as 15th century on the site of a reclusive foundation. It was restored in 1870 by Hans Price, as well as is currently a Grade II * listed building. Neighboring is a tiny building offered to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It acted as the station house until the 1960s as well as now houses a tiny gallery of memorabilia connected 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 archaeologist that had actually discovered the bones, had them reinterred as well as marked the site with the rock with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle constructed in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Originally constructed as his home, it is now a hotel and also restaurant and is a Grade II * listed building.