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Banwell is a town and 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 yielded flint applies 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. Hunt of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is bordered by a 4 metres (13 ft) high financial institution and ditch. The remains of a Romano-British vacation home were discovered in 1968. It included a yard, wall surface as well as 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 period. The increased area which was occupied by the Bower House was surrounded by a water filled ditch, part of which has actually considering that been integrated right into a rhyne. The parish became part of the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a bishops home in the 14th as well as 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 building. Neighboring is a tiny building offered to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It served as the station house until the 1960s as well as currently houses a tiny museum of memorabilia associated with the station house. “Beard’s Stone” in Cave’s Wood dates from 1842. It notes the reburial site of an ancient human skeletal system discovered in a cavern near Bishop’s Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist that had discovered the bones, had them reinterred and noted the site with the stone with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle built in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Initially developed as his house, it is now a resort and also restaurant and also is a Grade II * listed structure.