Banwell
Banwell is a town as well as 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 village, is a univallate hillfort which has produced flint executes from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was additionally 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 ft) high financial institution and ditch. The remains of a Romano-British vacation home were uncovered in 1968. It consisted of a yard, wall surface and also bath residence near to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the site recommend it came under disuse in the fourth century. Earthworks from farm buildings, 420 metres (1,380 ft) south of Gout House Farm, occupied from the 11th to 14th centuries where archaeological remains suggest the website was first occupied in the Romano-British duration. The increased area which was occupied by the Bower House was surrounded by a water loaded ditch, part of which has actually because been integrated right into a rhyne. The church was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was built as a bishops home in the 14th and also 15th century on the website of a monastic structure. It was restored in 1870 by Hans Price, as well as is currently a Grade II * listed building. Nearby is a tiny structure offered to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a little fire-engine. It acted as the fire station up until the 1960s and now houses a small gallery of memorabilia connected to 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 excavator that had actually located the bones, had them reinterred and marked the website with the stone with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle integrated in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Initially developed as his home, it is now a resort as well as dining establishment and is a Grade II * listed structure.
