List of Tumps

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Not to be confused with 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 (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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