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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 town, is a univallate hillfort which has actually produced flint implements from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. It was additionally 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 as well as ditch. The remains of a Romano-British rental property were found in 1968. It included a yard, wall surface and bathroom house near 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 recommend the site was first occupied in the Romano-British duration. The elevated area which was occupied by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled ditch, part of which has actually considering that been included into a rhyne. The church was part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a bishops home in the 14th and also 15th century on the site of a reclusive structure. It was remodelled in 1870 by Hans Cost, as well as is now a Grade II * listed structure. Close-by is a tiny building provided to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It acted as the station house until the 1960s and currently houses a little gallery of souvenirs related to the station house. “Beard’s Stone” in Cave’s Wood dates from 1842. It marks the reburial site of an old human skeleton discovered in a cavern near Bishop’s Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist who had actually found the bones, had them reinterred and also marked the site with the stone with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle built in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Originally constructed as his house, it is currently a resort and restaurant as well as is a Grade II * listed structure.