List of tumps explained

Tump means a hillock, mound, barrow or tumulus. The Welsh words Welsh: twmp and Welsh: 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 (tumuli and especially bowl barrows) or motte-and-bailey castle mounds. The following geographical features in the UK are referred to using the word:

a slight prominence near the top of the scarp, in open space near the Swan, Almondsbury, South Gloucestershire

a barrow in the civil parish of Leafield, Oxfordshire[1]

[2] a castle motte, Scheduled Ancient Monument, Lower Common, Gilwern, Monmouthshire

a castle in Awre, Gloucestershire

an earthwork reputed to be the remains of a castle motte in King's Caple, Herefordshire

an early 11th-century motte-and-bailey castle in Trecastle, Powys

site of a Roman villa in Monmouthshire

a castle in Dymock, Gloucestershire

believed to be the remains of an early Norman motte-and-bailey castle near Burford, Shropshire and Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire

north of Bath (Bath and North East Somerset), possibly the site of mining activities in the past

castle mound/motte, Beguildy, Powys

a hill near Grosmont in north-eastern Monmouthshire

a Neolithic burial mound near the village of Uley, Gloucestershire

site of a castle near the battlefield of the Battle of Beguildy, Powys

earthwork and buried remains of a medieval motte-and-bailey castle at Castle Green near Leigh, Worcestershire

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

site of open patches of grassland and bare rock, interspersed with blocks of scrub, alongside the Bristol to Bath railway line

an Iron Age hillfort in Somerset

12th-century motte castle in Tonteg, Rhondda Cynon Taf

a round barrow by the A46 near Oldbury-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire

earthwork remains of a small motte-and-bailey castle 1 milenorth of Bacton, Herefordshire

remains of a motte-and-bailey castle 3 miles southeast of Clifford, Herefordshire

prehistoric burial ground near Alpraham, Cheshire

immediately south of St Weonards churchyard, Herefordshire

an Iron Age hill fort close to Brecon, Powys

a hillock in the parish of Manningford Abbots, Wiltshire, identified as the moot-place mentioned in the will of King Alfred

mound marking the site of a small motte-and-bailey castle in Trellech, Monmouthshire

on the ridge immediately north-west of Llanwarne, Herefordshire

Wednesbury, West Midlands

central Worcestershire, a prehistoric religious site and location of a medieval castle

a Neolithic burial site west of the village of Rodmarton, Gloucestershire

village in Herefordshire, location of the burial mound of King Arthur's son Amr

Notes and References

  1. http://historicoxfordshire.ashmolean.org/SitePages/leafield.html Site Name: Leafield Leafield Barrow... Locally it is known as 'Barry's Hill Tump' or 'Barry's Tump'
  2. http://www.llanellycc.org.uk/documents/GilwernPart2.pdf Document at llanellycc.org.uk about Gilwern
  3. Web site: Mountain Search . 2022-07-27 . www.hill-bagging.co.uk.
  4. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tappa%27s_Tump Images in commons.wikimedia.org relating to Tappa's Tump