28 Aug
Sun Tunnel
Bristol - BS13
Enquiry from: Deborah T
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2 automatic windows on single storey extension roof. Need servicing. One works, one doesn’t respond to remote but will open manually
Banwell
Banwell is a village and 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 generated flint carries out from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic as well as Bronze Age. It was likewise inhabited 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 consisted of a courtyard, wall surface as well as bathroom home close 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 ft) south of Gout House Farm, occupied from the 11th to 14th centuries where archaeological remains recommend the site was first inhabited in the Romano-British period. The raised area which was occupied by the Bower House was bordered by a water filled up ditch, part of which has actually given that been integrated into a rhyne. The church belonged to the Winterstoke Hundred. Banwell Abbey was built as a bishops home in the 14th and 15th century on the site of a reclusive structure. It was refurbished in 1870 by Hans Price, as well as is currently a Grade II * listed building. Close-by is a little structure provided to the town by Miss Elizabeth Fazakerly, who lived at The Abbey in 1887 to house a small fire-engine. It functioned as the station house till the 1960s and now houses a little museum of memorabilia related to the fire station. "Beard's Stone" in Cave's Wood dates from 1842. It marks the reburial website of an old human skeletal system found in a cave near Bishop's Cottage. William Beard, an amateur archaeologist that had found the bones, had them reinterred as well as marked the site with the stone with a poetic inscription. Banwell Castle is a Victorian castle integrated in 1847 by John Dyer Sympson, a solicitor from London. Originally constructed as his house, it is now a hotel and also dining establishment and is a Grade II * listed building.
