Banwell
Banwell is a village 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, eastern of the village, is a univallate hillfort which has actually produced flint implements from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. It was additionally occupied 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 bordered by a 4 metres (13 feet) high bank and also ditch. The remains of a Romano-British villa were uncovered in 1968. It included a yard, wall as well as bathroom house near to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website recommend it fell under disuse in the 4th 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 inhabited in the Romano-British duration. The increased location which was occupied by the Bower House was bordered by a water loaded ditch, part of which has since been included into a rhyne. The church belonged to the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was built as a bishops residence in the 14th and 15th century on the website of a reclusive foundation. It was refurbished in 1870 by Hans Cost, and also is now a Grade II * listed structure. Close-by is a little building provided to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It worked as the station house up until the 1960s and currently houses a little gallery of memorabilia connected to the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It notes the reburial website of an ancient human skeleton located in a cavern near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist who had discovered the bones, had them reinterred as well as marked the site with the stone with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle built in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Initially constructed as his home, it is currently a resort and dining establishment and also is a Grade II * listed building.
