Banwell is a village 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, east of the village, is a univallate hillfort which has actually produced flint applies from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was additionally inhabited in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was dug deep into by J.W. Quest of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is bordered by a 4 metres (13 ft) high bank and ditch. The remains of a Romano-British rental property were uncovered in 1968. It included a courtyard, wall and bathroom residence near the River Banwell. Artefacts from the site recommend it came under disuse in the fourth 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 increased area which was occupied by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled ditch, part of which has given that been integrated right into a rhyne. The church was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was built as a diocesans house in the 14th and 15th century on the website of a monastic structure. It was renovated in 1870 by Hans Rate, as well as is currently a Grade II * listed building. Neighboring is a small structure provided to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It worked as the fire station until the 1960s as well as currently houses a little gallery of memorabilia associated with the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood days from 1842. It notes the reburial site of an old human skeleton found in a cavern near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist who had found 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 solicitor from London. Initially built as his house, it is now a resort as well as restaurant as well as is a Grade II * listed structure.