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Banwell is a village 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, east of the village, is a univallate hillfort which has produced flint carries out from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was also inhabited in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was excavated by J.W. Quest of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is bordered by a 4 metres (13 ft) high bank and also ditch. The remains of a Romano-British suite were found in 1968. It consisted of a yard, wall surface and also bath residence close to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the site suggest it fell under disuse in the fourth century. Earthworks from farm buildings, 420 metres (1,380 feet) south of Gout House Farm, occupied from the 11th to 14th centuries where archaeological remains suggest the website was first inhabited in the Romano-British period. The increased area which was occupied by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled ditch, part of which has actually because been integrated into a rhyne. The church was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was built as a bishops house in the 14th and 15th century on the site of a reclusive structure. It was refurbished in 1870 by Hans Rate, and also is now a Grade II * listed structure. Nearby is a small building offered to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It served as the fire station till the 1960s and currently houses a small gallery of memorabilia connected to the fire station. “Beard’s Stone” in Cave’s Wood dates from 1842. It marks the reburial site of an ancient human skeleton discovered in a cave near Bishop’s Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist that had actually found the bones, had them reinterred and also noted the website with the stone with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle built in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Initially constructed as his residence, it is currently a resort and restaurant as well as is a Grade II * listed structure.