List of Tumps

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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 (tumuli and especially Bowl barrows) 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
  • Barry's Hill Tump Barrow in the civil parish of Leafield, Oxfordshire[1]
  • Battle Tump[2] a castle motte, Scheduled Ancient Monument, Lower Common, Gilwern
  • Bettws Newydd tump, an early Norman motte and bailey tump in Monmouthshire
  • Bledisloe Tump, a castle in the village of Awre in Gloucestershire, England
  • Brinklow Castle known locally as 'the Tump', a medieval castle in the village of Brinklow
  • Caple Tump 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, Wales
  • Castle Tump Caerwent, Monmouthshire -site of a Roman villa
  • Castle Tump, Dymock, a castle in the village of Dymock in Gloucestershire, England
  • Castle Tump Motte (see Glasbury Castle), Glasbury
  • Castle Tump believed to be the remains of an early Norman motte and bailey castle near Burford, Shropshire and Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire
  • Congrove Field and The Tumps, north of Bath, possibly the site of mining activities in the past
  • Crugyn Tump Castle Mound/ Motte, Beguildy
  • East Tump and West Tump are small (ca. 50m and 100m long respectively) tidal islands off the respective coasts of the Island of Grassholm
  • Edmunds Tump, a hill near Grosmont in north-eastern Monmouthshire, Wales
  • Hetty Pegler's Tump, a Neolithic burial mound near the village of Uley, Gloucestershire, England
  • Knucklas Castle Mound, site of a castle near the battlefield of the Battle of Beguildy
  • 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 Offas 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, England
  • Monkey Tump, 12th-century motte castle in Tonteg, South Wales
  • 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 One mile to the north of Bacton, Herefordshire
  • Newton Tump is the remains of a motte and bailey castle 3 miles southeast of Clifford, Herefordshire
  • Robin Hood's Tump (see under 'Buildings and structures') Prehistoric burial ground near Alpraham, Cheshire
  • St Weonards Tump -tump immediately south of St Weonards churchyard, Herefordshire
  • Slwch Tump, an Iron Age hill fort close to Brecon in Powys, Wales
  • Stow Green Tump/ Castle Tump, remains of a castle near the village of St Briavels in Gloucestershire
  • Swanborough Tump, a hillock in the parish of Manningford Abbots 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[3] 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
  • Turkey Tump (SO504288), on the ridge immediately NW of Llanwarne Herefordshire
  • Wednesbury Tump (see 'Post-Medieval times') the Tump, Wednesbury
  • Windmill Tump, a Neolithic burial site west of the village of Rodmarton in Gloucestershire, England
  • Wormelow Tump, village in Herefordshire, England, location of the burial mound of King Arthur's son Amr

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