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Banwell is a town as well as 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 actually produced flint carries out from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was additionally occupied in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was excavated by J.W. Quest of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is surrounded by a 4 metres (13 feet) high financial institution and ditch. The remains of a Romano-British vacation home were found in 1968. It included a courtyard, wall and bath home near to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website suggest it fell under disuse in the 4th century. Earthworks from farm buildings, 420 metres (1,380 ft) south of Gout House Farm, inhabited from the 11th to 14th centuries where archaeological remains suggest the website was first occupied in the Romano-British period. The elevated area which was inhabited by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled ditch, part of which has considering that been integrated into a rhyne. The parish became part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was constructed as a diocesans home in the 14th and 15th century on the site of a monastic foundation. It was refurbished in 1870 by Hans Price, and also is currently a Grade II * listed structure. Neighboring is a tiny structure presented to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It worked as the fire station up until the 1960s and also now houses a small museum of souvenirs associated with the station house. “Beard’s Stone” in Cave’s Wood dates from 1842. It marks the reburial site of an ancient human skeletal system located in a cavern near Bishop’s Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist who had actually discovered the bones, had them reinterred and also noted the site with the rock with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle integrated in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Originally built as his home, it is currently a resort as well as restaurant and is a Grade II * listed building.