Banwell
Banwell is a town as well as 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 generated flint executes from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was also 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 ft) high financial institution and ditch. The remains of a Romano-British vacation home were discovered in 1968. It consisted of a yard, wall and also bath house close to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website recommend it fell into disuse in the fourth 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 inhabited in the Romano-British duration. The increased location which was occupied by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled up ditch, part of which has actually since been included into a rhyne. The parish became part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a diocesans residence in the 14th as well as 15th century on the website of a reclusive structure. It was remodelled in 1870 by Hans Rate, and is now a Grade II * listed structure. Close-by is a small structure provided to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It worked as the station house till the 1960s as well as currently houses a small museum of souvenirs connected to the fire station. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood dates from 1842. It marks the reburial website of an old human skeletal system discovered in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist that had actually located the bones, had them reinterred as well as marked 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. Initially developed as his house, it is currently a resort and restaurant and also is a Grade II * listed building.
