Banwell
Banwell is a town as well as 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 town, is a univallate hillfort which has generated flint executes from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic as well as Bronze Age. It was likewise inhabited in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was excavated by J.W. Quest 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 rental property were found in 1968. It included a yard, wall and bathroom home near the River Banwell. Artefacts from the site suggest it came under disuse in the 4th 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 website was first occupied in the Romano-British duration. The raised location which was inhabited by the Bower House was surrounded by a water filled ditch, part of which has actually because been incorporated right into a rhyne. The church was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was constructed as a bishops house in the 14th and 15th century on the site of a monastic foundation. It was renovated in 1870 by Hans Cost, and is currently a Grade II * listed structure. Close-by is a tiny building offered to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It functioned as the fire station up until the 1960s as well as now houses a tiny museum of souvenirs associated with the fire station. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It marks the reburial site of an ancient human skeleton discovered in a cavern near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist that had actually located the bones, had them reinterred and also noted the website with the rock with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle integrated in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Initially constructed as his house, it is currently a hotel as well as dining establishment and is a Grade II * listed structure.