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 village, is a univallate hillfort which has yielded flint applies from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also 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 bordered by a 4 metres (13 feet) high financial institution and also ditch. The remains of a Romano-British vacation home were found in 1968. It included a courtyard, wall surface and bathroom house near the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website recommend it fell into disuse in the fourth century. Earthworks from farm buildings, 420 metres (1,380 ft) south of Gout House Farm, inhabited from the 11th to 14th centuries where archaeological remains suggest the website was first inhabited in the Romano-British duration. The elevated location which was inhabited by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled ditch, part of which has actually since been integrated into a rhyne. The parish was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was built as a bishops residence in the 14th and 15th century on the website of a monastic foundation. It was refurbished in 1870 by Hans Price, as well as is currently a Grade II * listed building. Close-by is a tiny building offered to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It served as the fire station till the 1960s as well as now houses a little museum of souvenirs connected to the fire station. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It notes the reburial website of an ancient human skeleton discovered in a cavern near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur excavator that had located the bones, had them reinterred and 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 developed as his home, it is now a hotel as well as restaurant as well as is a Grade II * listed building.
