List of tumps facts for kids

"Tump" redirects here. For other uses, see Tump (disambiguation).

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, 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 (see Glasbury Castle), 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
Congrove Field and The Tumps: north of Bath (Bath and North East Somerset), possibly the site of mining activities in the past
Crugyn Tump: castle mound/motte, Beguildy, Powys
East Tump and West Tump: 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
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
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 (see under 'Buildings and structures'): 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 (Herefordshire–Worcestershire border)
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
Turkey Tump: on the ridge immediately north-west of Llanwarne, Herefordshire
Wednesbury Tump (see 'Post-Medieval times'): Wednesbury, West Midlands
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