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 actually produced flint carries out from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was also inhabited in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was dug deep into by J.W. Quest of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is surrounded by a 4 metres (13 ft) high bank as well as ditch. The remains of a Romano-British vacation home were discovered in 1968. It included a courtyard, wall surface and bath residence near to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website suggest it came 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 suggest the website was first inhabited in the Romano-British period. The increased location which was occupied by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled ditch, part of which has actually because been incorporated into a rhyne. The church belonged to the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was built as a diocesans residence in the 14th as well as 15th century on the website of a reclusive foundation. It was remodelled in 1870 by Hans Cost, and is currently a Grade II * listed structure. Neighboring is a little building presented to the town 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 as well as currently houses a little museum of memorabilia related to the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It marks the reburial website of an old human skeleton discovered in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist that had actually discovered the bones, had them reinterred as well as noted the site with the rock with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle built in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Originally built as his residence, it is currently a resort and also dining establishment and also is a Grade II * listed building.