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Banwell is a town 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, eastern of the town, is a univallate hillfort which has actually yielded flint executes from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was additionally occupied in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was dug deep into by J.W. Hunt of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is surrounded by a 4 metres (13 feet) high financial institution and also ditch. The remains of a Romano-British rental property were found in 1968. It consisted of a yard, wall surface and bath home close to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website recommend it came under 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 raised area which was occupied by the Bower House was surrounded by a water loaded ditch, part of which has actually given that been included right into a rhyne. The parish belonged to the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was built as a diocesans home in the 14th and also 15th century on the website of a reclusive foundation. It was restored in 1870 by Hans Price, as well as is currently a Grade II * listed building. Close-by is a little structure offered to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It worked as the station house till the 1960s as well as now houses a little 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 skeleton found in a cavern near Bishop’s Cottage. William Beard, an amateur excavator who had actually located the bones, had them reinterred as well as marked the website with the rock with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle integrated in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Initially developed as his residence, it is currently a hotel as well as dining establishment as well as is a Grade II * listed structure.