Banwell
Banwell is a village and 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, east of the village, is a univallate hillfort which has actually yielded flint applies from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic as well as Bronze Age. It was additionally occupied in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was excavated by J.W. Hunt of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is surrounded by a 4 metres (13 feet) high financial institution as well as ditch. The remains of a Romano-British rental property were found in 1968. It included a yard, wall as well as bathroom house close to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the site suggest it fell into 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 recommend the website was first inhabited in the Romano-British period. The raised location which was inhabited by the Bower House was surrounded by a water loaded ditch, part of which has given that been incorporated right into a rhyne. The parish became part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a bishops house in the 14th as well as 15th century on the website of a monastic foundation. It was remodelled in 1870 by Hans Cost, and also is currently a Grade II * listed structure. Neighboring is a small building provided to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It functioned as the station house till the 1960s and also now houses a tiny gallery of souvenirs associated with the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It notes the reburial site of an ancient human skeletal system located in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur excavator who had discovered the bones, had them reinterred and noted 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. Initially developed as his residence, it is currently a resort as well as restaurant and is a Grade II * listed structure.