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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, east of the village, is a univallate hillfort which has actually produced flint implements from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was also inhabited 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 ft) high financial institution and also ditch. The remains of a Romano-British vacation home were uncovered in 1968. It included a courtyard, wall and also bath home near 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 recommend the site was first occupied in the Romano-British duration. The increased area which was inhabited by the Bower House was bordered by a water loaded ditch, part of which has actually because been included into a rhyne. The church belonged to the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was built as a bishops house in the 14th and also 15th century on the site of a monastic structure. It was renovated in 1870 by Hans Price, and also is now a Grade II * listed structure. Close-by is a tiny building presented to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a tiny fire-engine. It acted as the station house up 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 days from 1842. It marks the reburial site of an ancient human skeletal system found in a cave near Bishop’s Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist that had actually located the bones, had them reinterred as well as noted the site with the rock with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle integrated in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Originally developed as his house, it is currently a resort and also dining establishment and also is a Grade II * listed building.