Banwell
Banwell is a village as well as 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 executes from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. It was additionally inhabited in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was dug deep into by J.W. Hunt of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is bordered by a 4 metres (13 feet) high financial institution as well as ditch. The remains of a Romano-British suite were found in 1968. It consisted of a yard, wall surface as well as bathroom house near to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website suggest it fell into 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 recommend the website was first inhabited in the Romano-British period. The raised area which was inhabited by the Bower House was surrounded by a water filled up ditch, part of which has actually considering that been included right into a rhyne. The parish belonged to the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was constructed as a diocesans home in the 14th as well as 15th century on the website of a reclusive foundation. It was renovated in 1870 by Hans Rate, and is now a Grade II * listed structure. Nearby is a little structure offered to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a little fire-engine. It worked as the station house up until the 1960s and also now houses a little 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 old human skeletal system discovered in a cavern near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist that had actually discovered the bones, had them reinterred as well as noted the website with the stone with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle integrated in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Initially developed as his house, it is currently a hotel as well as restaurant and is a Grade II * listed structure.
