Banwell
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 generated flint implements from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was additionally occupied 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 bordered by a 4 metres (13 ft) high financial institution and also ditch. The remains of a Romano-British vacation home were discovered in 1968. It consisted of a yard, wall as well as bath house near to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website recommend 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 recommend the website was first inhabited in the Romano-British period. The elevated area which was occupied by the Bower House was surrounded by a water filled ditch, part of which has since been incorporated into a rhyne. The parish was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was constructed as a diocesans home in the 14th and also 15th century on the site of a monastic foundation. It was refurbished in 1870 by Hans Rate, and is now a Grade II * listed building. Close-by is a tiny building presented to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It acted as the fire station up until the 1960s and currently houses a little museum of memorabilia connected to the fire station. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It marks the reburial site of an old human skeletal system located in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur excavator that had actually found the bones, had them reinterred and also noted the website with the stone with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle constructed in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Initially constructed as his house, it is now a hotel as well as restaurant and is a Grade II * listed structure.
