29 Aug
Kitchen Fitting
Wells - BA5
Enquiry from: Sally L
Start Date: Immediate
Granite worktop cut to accommodate new hob
Banwell
Banwell is a village 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 yielded flint carries out from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic as well as Bronze Age. It was also occupied in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was excavated by J.W. Search of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is surrounded by a 4 metres (13 ft) high bank and ditch. The remains of a Romano-British villa were found in 1968. It included a yard, wall surface as well as bathroom residence close to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the website suggest it came under disuse in the fourth 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 recommend the site was first inhabited in the Romano-British duration. The elevated location which was occupied by the Bower House was surrounded by a water loaded ditch, part of which has since been incorporated into a rhyne. The church belonged to the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was constructed as a diocesans residence in the 14th and also 15th century on the site of a monastic structure. It was restored in 1870 by Hans Price, and also is currently a Grade II * listed building. Close-by is a tiny structure presented to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a little fire-engine. It served as the station house till the 1960s and also now houses a little gallery of memorabilia connected to the station house. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood dates from 1842. It notes the reburial site of an old human skeleton located in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur excavator who had found the bones, had them reinterred as well as marked the website with the rock with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle constructed in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Initially constructed as his home, it is currently a resort and also restaurant and also is a Grade II * listed building.
