10 Feb
Roof insulation
Burnham-on-Sea - TA8
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Start Date: Immediate
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Banwell
Banwell is a town and also 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 town, is a univallate hillfort which has produced flint implements from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and also Bronze Age. It was additionally inhabited in the Iron Age. In the late 1950s it was dug deep into by J.W. Quest of the Banwell Society of Archaeology. It is bordered by a 4 metres (13 feet) high bank and also ditch. The remains of a Romano-British villa were discovered in 1968. It consisted of a yard, wall and bath residence close to the River Banwell. Artefacts from the site recommend 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 suggest the website was first occupied in the Romano-British period. The raised area which was inhabited by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled up ditch, part of which has because been included right into a rhyne. The church belonged to the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was developed as a bishops home in the 14th and 15th century on the site of a monastic foundation. It was renovated in 1870 by Hans Price, and is now a Grade II * listed structure. Neighboring is a tiny building presented to the village by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, that lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It acted as the fire station up until the 1960s and also currently houses a small museum of souvenirs related to the fire station. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood dates from 1842. It marks the reburial site of an old human skeleton located in a cavern near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur excavator that had actually found the bones, had them reinterred and noted the site with the rock with a poetic engraving. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle constructed in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a lawyer from London. Initially built as his residence, it is now a resort and dining establishment and is a Grade II * listed structure.
