Banwell
Banwell is a town 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, east of the town, is a univallate hillfort which has actually produced flint executes from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was additionally inhabited in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was dug deep into by J.W. Search of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is surrounded by a 4 metres (13 ft) high financial institution as well as ditch. The remains of a Romano-British villa were uncovered in 1968. It included a courtyard, wall and bathroom house near the River Banwell. Artefacts from the site recommend it fell under 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 recommend the website was first occupied in the Romano-British duration. The elevated area which was inhabited 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 diocesans residence in the 14th as well as 15th century on the site of a monastic structure. It was refurbished in 1870 by Hans Cost, as well as is now a Grade II * listed structure. Neighboring is a little building provided to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It worked as the fire station until the 1960s as well as now houses a small museum of souvenirs related to the fire station. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It marks the reburial website of an ancient human skeletal system found in a cavern near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist who had discovered the bones, had them reinterred and also marked the website 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 built as his house, it is currently a hotel and restaurant and is a Grade II * listed structure.
