Banwell
Banwell is a town 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 produced flint executes from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic as well as Bronze Age. It was also occupied in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was excavated by J.W. Search of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is bordered by a 4 metres (13 ft) high bank and also ditch. The remains of a Romano-British villa were discovered in 1968. It consisted of a courtyard, wall surface and bath residence 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 feet) 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 duration. The increased location which was occupied by the Bower House was surrounded by a water filled ditch, part of which has actually given that been incorporated right into a rhyne. The church was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was constructed as a bishops residence in the 14th as well as 15th century on the site of a reclusive structure. It was remodelled in 1870 by Hans Price, as well as is currently a Grade II * listed structure. Nearby is a small structure offered to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It served as the fire station until the 1960s and also currently houses a small museum of souvenirs connected to the fire station. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood dates from 1842. It notes the reburial site of an old human skeleton located in a cavern near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist who had actually found the bones, had them reinterred and marked the site with the rock with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle constructed in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Originally constructed as his house, it is currently a hotel as well as dining establishment as well as is a Grade II * listed structure.
