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 town, is a univallate hillfort which has actually generated flint applies from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. It was also inhabited in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was dug deep into by J.W. Hunt of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is bordered by a 4 metres (13 feet) high bank and also ditch. The remains of a Romano-British vacation home were uncovered in 1968. It consisted of a courtyard, wall surface and also bath house near the River Banwell. Artefacts from the site suggest it fell 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 suggest the site was first occupied in the Romano-British duration. The increased location which was inhabited by the Bower House was surrounded by a water filled ditch, part of which has since been incorporated into a rhyne. The parish became part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was built as a bishops house in the 14th as well as 15th century on the site of a monastic foundation. It was remodelled in 1870 by Hans Cost, and also is now a Grade II * listed building. Neighboring is a tiny building provided to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It acted as the station house up until the 1960s and also currently houses a small museum of souvenirs associated with the fire station. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It notes the reburial site of an old human skeleton found in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist who had actually located the bones, had them reinterred and marked 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. Initially built as his residence, it is now a hotel and restaurant as well as is a Grade II * listed building.