Banwell is a town 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 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 vacation home were uncovered in 1968. It included a courtyard, wall and also bath home near to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website recommend it fell under 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 inhabited in the Romano-British duration. The increased location which was occupied by the Bower House was bordered by a water loaded ditch, part of which has actually considering that been integrated right into a rhyne. The parish was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was built as a diocesans residence in the 14th as well as 15th century on the site of a reclusive foundation. It was refurbished in 1870 by Hans Rate, and also is now a Grade II * listed structure. Close-by is a tiny structure provided to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It served as the fire station up until the 1960s as well as now houses a small museum of souvenirs connected to the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood dates from 1842. It notes the reburial site of an ancient human skeletal system located in a cavern near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist who had actually located the bones, had them reinterred and noted the website with the stone with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle integrated in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Originally constructed as his home, it is currently a hotel as well as dining establishment as well as is a Grade II * listed building.