Banwell
Banwell is a town and also 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 produced flint applies from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. It was also occupied in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was excavated by J.W. Search of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is surrounded by a 4 metres (13 ft) high financial institution and also ditch. The remains of a Romano-British rental property were found in 1968. It included a yard, wall and also bathroom residence close 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 suggest the site was first inhabited in the Romano-British period. The increased location which was occupied by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled ditch, part of which has given that been included right into a rhyne. The parish became part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a bishops home in the 14th and 15th century on the site of a monastic foundation. It was refurbished in 1870 by Hans Price, as well as is now a Grade II * listed structure. Nearby is a little building offered to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It worked as the station house up until the 1960s and currently houses a tiny gallery of souvenirs related to the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood dates from 1842. It notes the reburial site of an old human skeletal system found in a cavern near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist who had located the bones, had them reinterred and also noted the website with the rock with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle integrated in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Originally built as his house, it is now a hotel and also restaurant and also is a Grade II * listed structure.