Banwell
Banwell is a village and also 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 yielded flint carries out from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. It was likewise inhabited in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was excavated by J.W. Quest of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is bordered by a 4 metres (13 ft) high bank as well as ditch. The remains of a Romano-British suite were uncovered in 1968. It consisted of a yard, wall surface and also bathroom house near the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website suggest 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 suggest the site was first occupied in the Romano-British period. The elevated area which was inhabited by the Bower House was surrounded by a water filled up ditch, part of which has actually considering that been incorporated right into a rhyne. The parish was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a bishops residence in the 14th and also 15th century on the website of a reclusive foundation. It was restored in 1870 by Hans Rate, as well as is now a Grade II * listed building. Close-by is a small building provided to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a little fire-engine. It served as the fire station till the 1960s and also now houses a small museum of memorabilia associated with the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood dates from 1842. It notes 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 and marked the site with the stone with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle constructed in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Initially developed as his house, it is currently a resort and also restaurant and is a Grade II * listed building.
