Banwell
Banwell is a town 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, east of the village, is a univallate hillfort which has actually produced flint applies from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. It was additionally 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 surrounded by a 4 metres (13 feet) high financial institution and also ditch. The remains of a Romano-British suite were discovered in 1968. It consisted of a yard, wall and also bath home near 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 suggest the website was first inhabited in the Romano-British period. The raised location which was inhabited by the Bower House was surrounded by a water loaded ditch, part of which has actually because been incorporated into a rhyne. The church belonged to 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 structure. It was refurbished in 1870 by Hans Price, and is currently a Grade II * listed building. Neighboring is a tiny building presented to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It acted as the fire station till the 1960s and also now houses a little gallery of memorabilia connected to the fire station. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood dates from 1842. It marks the reburial site of an ancient human skeleton located in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur excavator that had discovered the bones, had them reinterred as well as marked 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. Initially developed as his residence, it is currently a resort and also restaurant and also is a Grade II * listed structure.
