Wormelow Tump

	The Tump Inn
	Wormelow Tump Location within Herefordshire
OS grid reference	SO4910930347
Civil parish	Much Birch; Much Dewchurch;
Unitary authority	Herefordshire;
Ceremonial county	Herefordshire;
Region	West Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Bromyard
Postcode district	HR2
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Hereford and South Herefordshire;
	List of places UK England Herefordshire 51°58′08″N 2°44′28″W / 51.969°N 2.741°W

Wormelow Tump is a village in Herefordshire, England, 6 miles (10 km) south of Hereford and 6+1⁄2 mi (10 km) 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.^[2]

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.

Map sources

Map sources for Wormelow Tump

References

^ Goodwin, Nicola (13 November 2014). "Places – Arthurian Connections". BBC Hereford & Worcester. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
^ ^a ^b Greene, Miranda (2005). "The Anglo-Saxon Period". Herefordshire Through Time. Herefordshire Council. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
^ "My mother, the heroine and spy". Shropshire Star. 30 June 2015. p. 8.Comment and Analysis article by Toby Neal, involving interview with Szabo's daughter.

External links

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Violette Szabo GC Museum

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[1] Goodwin, Nicola (13 November 2014). "Places – Arthurian Connections". BBC Hereford & Worcester. Retrieved 27 February 2018.

[:0-2] Greene, Miranda (2005). "The Anglo-Saxon Period". Herefordshire Through Time. Herefordshire Council. Retrieved 28 February 2018.

[3] "My mother, the heroine and spy". Shropshire Star. 30 June 2015. p. 8.Comment and Analysis article by Toby Neal, involving interview with Szabo's daughter.

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