Wormelow Tump Explained

Country:England
Region:West Midlands
Static Image Name:WormelowTump.jpg
Static Image Caption:The Tump Inn
Os Grid Reference:SO4910930347
Map Type:Herefordshire
Coordinates:51.969°N -2.741°W
Post Town:Bromyard
Postcode Area:HR
Postcode District:HR2
Constituency Westminster:Hereford and South Herefordshire
Civil Parish:Much Birch
Civil Parish1:Much Dewchurch
Unitary England:Herefordshire
Lieutenancy England:Herefordshire

Wormelow Tump is a village in Herefordshire, England, 6miles south of Hereford and NaN0NaN0 north-west of Ross-on-Wye. Most of the village lies in the parish of Much Birch, but it extends west across the parish boundary – which here follows the A466 – into Much Dewchurch parish.

The tump itself was a mound which local tradition holds was the burial place of King Arthur's son Amr.[1] The tump was flattened to widen the road in 1896.[2]

Wormelow gave its name to a hundred. The Domesday Book mentions the custom that all citizens of Herefordshire who owned a horse were required to attend the meeting of all the hundreds, which took place every three years at Wormelow Tump.

The village is the site of the Violette Szabo GC Museum, commemorating the life of World War II secret agent Violette Szabo. Szabo (nee Bushell) stayed occasionally in the village from childhood until just before her final mission, at a house then called The Old Kennels, which was the home of her cousins the Lucas family.[3]

The local manor house, Bryngwyn Manor, has been converted into apartments.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Places – Arthurian Connections. Goodwin. Nicola. 13 November 2014. BBC Hereford & Worcester. 27 February 2018.
  2. Web site: The Anglo-Saxon Period. Greene. Miranda. 2005. Herefordshire Through Time. Herefordshire Council. en. 28 February 2018.
  3. News: My mother, the heroine and spy. Shropshire Star. 30 June 2015. 8. Comment and Analysis article by Toby Neal, involving interview with Szabo's daughter.