Banwell
Banwell is a village as well as 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 town, is a univallate hillfort which has yielded flint applies from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was also inhabited 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 ft) high financial institution as well as ditch. The remains of a Romano-British suite were found in 1968. It consisted of a yard, wall surface as well as bath residence near the River Banwell. Artefacts from the site recommend it fell into disuse in the 4th century. Earthworks from farm buildings, 420 metres (1,380 ft) south of Gout House Farm, inhabited from the 11th to 14th centuries where archaeological remains suggest the website was first occupied in the Romano-British period. The raised area which was occupied by the Bower House was surrounded by a water filled ditch, part of which has actually since been included into a rhyne. The parish belonged to the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was constructed as a diocesans house in the 14th and also 15th century on the website of a reclusive structure. It was refurbished in 1870 by Hans Price, and also is currently a Grade II * listed structure. Nearby is a small building offered to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It worked as the fire station until the 1960s and currently houses a small gallery of souvenirs related to the fire station. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It notes the reburial website of an old human skeletal system located in a cavern near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist who had actually discovered the bones, had them reinterred as well as noted the site with the stone with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle integrated in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Originally built as his home, it is now a hotel and restaurant as well as is a Grade II * listed structure.
