Banwell is a town and 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 yielded flint applies from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was additionally inhabited in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was excavated by J.W. Search of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is surrounded by a 4 metres (13 feet) high financial institution as well as ditch. The remains of a Romano-British rental property were discovered in 1968. It included a courtyard, wall as well as bath home close to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the site suggest it fell under disuse in the 4th 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 recommend the website was first occupied in the Romano-British period. The increased location which was inhabited by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled ditch, part of which has because been included right into a rhyne. The church became part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was constructed as a diocesans house in the 14th and 15th century on the site of a monastic structure. It was refurbished in 1870 by Hans Cost, and also is currently a Grade II * listed building. Close-by is a little structure offered to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It functioned as the fire station up until the 1960s and now houses a little museum of souvenirs related to the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood dates from 1842. It marks the reburial site of an old human skeletal system found in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur excavator that had located the bones, had them reinterred and noted the site with the rock with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle built in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Initially developed as his house, it is currently a hotel as well as restaurant as well as is a Grade II * listed building.
