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 town, is a univallate hillfort which has produced flint executes from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was likewise occupied in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was excavated by J.W. Search of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is surrounded by a 4 metres (13 feet) high financial institution and ditch. The remains of a Romano-British vacation home were discovered in 1968. It included a courtyard, wall and also bathroom residence near to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website recommend it came under disuse in the 4th 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 site was first occupied in the Romano-British period. The raised location which was occupied by the Bower House was surrounded by a water filled up ditch, part of which has actually since been incorporated right into a rhyne. The church became part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a diocesans house in the 14th and 15th century on the website of a reclusive foundation. It was restored in 1870 by Hans Rate, and is now a Grade II * listed structure. Close-by is a tiny structure offered to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a little fire-engine. It acted as the station house until the 1960s and also currently houses a small museum of souvenirs connected to the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood dates from 1842. It marks the reburial site of an old human skeleton located in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist that had located 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 solicitor from London. Originally constructed as his house, it is currently a resort and also dining establishment and is a Grade II * listed building.
