Banwell
Banwell is a village 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 village, is a univallate hillfort which has produced flint executes from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was likewise inhabited 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 feet) high financial institution and ditch. The remains of a Romano-British villa were found in 1968. It included a yard, wall surface as well as bathroom home near the River Banwell. Artefacts from the site recommend it came under disuse in the fourth century. Earthworks from farm buildings, 420 metres (1,380 feet) south of Gout House Farm, occupied from the 11th to 14th centuries where archaeological remains recommend the site was first occupied in the Romano-British duration. The elevated location which was inhabited by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled up ditch, part of which has since been incorporated into a rhyne. The parish belonged to the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a bishops house in the 14th and also 15th century on the site of a monastic structure. It was remodelled in 1870 by Hans Price, as well as is currently a Grade II * listed building. Neighboring is a small building provided to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It served as the fire station up until the 1960s and now houses a tiny gallery of souvenirs connected to the fire station. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It notes the reburial site of an ancient human skeletal system discovered in a cavern near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist who had discovered the bones, had them reinterred and also noted the site with the stone with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle built in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Initially developed as his home, it is now a resort and also restaurant and is a Grade II * listed building.
