Tump

Tump means a hillock, mound, barrow or tumulus. The Welsh words twmp and Twmpath may be related. Although some may appear similar to glacial drumlins, for the most part they are man-made, e.g. remains from mineral extraction, burial mounds or motte-and-bailey castle mounds. The following geographical features in the UK are referred to using the word:Almondsbury Tump: a slight prominence near the top of the scarp, in open space near the Swan, Almondsbury, South Gloucestershire Barry's Hill Tump: a barrow in the civil parish of Leafield, Oxfordshire Battle Tump: a castle motte, Scheduled Ancient Monument, Lower Common, Gilwern, Monmouthshire Bettws Newydd tump: an early Norman motte-and-bailey tump in Monmouthshire Bledisloe Tump: a castle in Awre, Gloucestershire Brinklow Castle known locally as 'the Tump': a medieval castle in the village of Brinklow, Warwickshire Caple Tump: an earthwork reputed to be the remains of a castle motte in King's Caple, Herefordshire Castle Tump: an early 11th-century motte-and-bailey castle in Trecastle, Powys Castle Tump, Caerwent: site of a Roman villa in Monmouthshire Castle Tump, Dymock: a castle in Dymock, Gloucestershire Castle Tump Motte, Glasbury, Powys Castle Tump, Tenbury Wells: believed to be the remains of an early Norman motte-and-bailey castle near Burford, Shropshire and Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire Cole's Tump, an area of pillow mounds on the west side of Orcop Hill, Herefordshire, that overlooks the village of the same name Congrove Field and The Tumps: north of Bath, possibly the site of mining activities in the past Crugyn Tump: castle mound/motte, Beguildy, Powys East Tump and West Tump: small tidal islands off the respective coasts of the Island of Grassholm Edmunds Tump: a hill near Grosmont in north-eastern Monmouthshire Hetty Pegler's Tump: a Neolithic burial mound near the village of Uley, Gloucestershire Knucklas Castle Mound: site of a castle near the battlefield of the Battle of Beguildy, Powys Llanthomas Castle Mound comprises the remains of a motte and ditch, near the village of Llanigon and the town of Hay-on-Wye Leigh Castle Tump: earthwork and buried remains of a medieval motte-and-bailey castle at Castle Green near Leigh, Worcestershire Loxidge Tump cairn: round cairn on the Offa's Dyke Path, Hatterrall Ridge, with Llanthony to one side and Llanveynoe the other; there are several other cairns nearby in general vicinity of Llanvihangel Crucorney Keynsham Humpy Tumps: site of open patches of grassland and bare rock, interspersed with blocks of scrub, alongside the Bristol to Bath railway line Maes Tump: an Iron Age hillfort in Somerset Monkey Tump: 12th-century motte castle in Tonteg, Rhondda Cynon Taf Nan Tow's Tump: a round barrow by the A46 near Oldbury-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire Newcourt Tump: earthwork remains of a small motte-and-bailey castle 1 milenorth of Bacton, Herefordshire Newton Tump: remains of a motte-and-bailey castle 3 miles southeast of Clifford, Herefordshire Robin Hood's Tump : prehistoric burial ground near Alpraham, Cheshire St Weonards Tump: immediately south of St Weonards churchyard, Herefordshire Slwch Tump: an Iron Age hill fort close to Brecon, Powys Stow Green Tump, also known as Castle Tump: remains of a castle near the village of St Briavels, Gloucestershire Swanborough Tump: a hillock in the parish of Manningford Abbots, Wiltshire, identified as the moot-place mentioned in the will of King Alfred Table Hill tump: in the Malvern Hills between North Hill and Sugarloaf Hill Tappa's Tump or "Tæppa's mound": burial mound near Taplow, Buckinghamshire "The Tump": ancient burial mound near Whittington, Worcestershire Tump Farm, Wilcrick: a farm near Wilcrick Hill, which was a hillfort in former Monmouthshire Tump Terret: mound marking the site of a small motte-and-bailey castle in Trellech, Monmouthshire Twmpath Castle, a motte-and-bailey castle in Rhiwbina, Cardiff Turkey Tump: on the ridge immediately north-west of Llanwarne, Herefordshire Wednesbury Tump : Wednesbury, West Midlands Whittington Tump: central Worcestershire, a prehistoric religious site and location of a medieval castle Windmill Tump: a Neolithic burial site west of the village of Rodmarton, Gloucestershire Wormelow Tump: village in Herefordshire, location of the burial mound of King Arthur's son Amr

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