Banwell
Banwell is a village 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, eastern of the village, is a univallate hillfort which has yielded flint carries out from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic as well as Bronze Age. It was also occupied 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 bordered by a 4 metres (13 feet) high financial institution as well as ditch. The remains of a Romano-British rental property were uncovered in 1968. It consisted of a courtyard, wall and also bath residence near the River Banwell. Artefacts from the site recommend it fell into disuse in the fourth 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 suggest the site was first occupied in the Romano-British period. The elevated location which was occupied by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled up ditch, part of which has actually since been integrated right into a rhyne. The church became part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a diocesans home in the 14th and 15th century on the website of a monastic structure. It was renovated in 1870 by Hans Cost, as well as is currently a Grade II * listed building. Neighboring is a small building offered to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It acted as the station house up until the 1960s and currently houses a small museum of memorabilia related to the fire station. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It notes the reburial site of an ancient human skeleton discovered in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur excavator that had actually located the bones, had them reinterred as well as noted the website with the stone with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle built in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Originally constructed as his home, it is now a hotel as well as dining establishment and also is a Grade II * listed building.