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 actually yielded flint executes from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was also occupied in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was excavated by J.W. Hunt 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 vacation home were uncovered in 1968. It consisted of a yard, wall surface and bathroom house near the River Banwell. Artefacts from the site recommend it fell into disuse in the fourth century. Earthworks from farm buildings, 420 metres (1,380 feet) south of Gout House Farm, inhabited from the 11th to 14th centuries where archaeological remains suggest the website was first inhabited in the Romano-British duration. The raised location which was occupied by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled up ditch, part of which has because been included into a rhyne. The parish was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a bishops house in the 14th and 15th century on the website of a monastic structure. It was remodelled in 1870 by Hans Rate, and is now a Grade II * listed structure. Neighboring is a little building offered to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It served as the fire station till 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 ancient human skeleton found in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur excavator that had actually located the bones, had them reinterred and also noted the website with the rock with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle integrated in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Originally built as his house, it is currently a hotel and also dining establishment as well as is a Grade II * listed structure.
