Tump means a hillock, mound, barrow or tumulus. The Welsh words and may be related. Although some may appear similar to glacial
drumlins
A drumlin, from the Irish Gaelic, Irish word ''droimnín'' ("littlest ridge"), first recorded in 1833, in the classical sense is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted spoon or half-buried egg formed by glacier, glacial ice acting on und ...
, 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
A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a walled courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade. Relatively easy t ...
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
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Bledisloe Tump
Bledisloe Tump was a castle in the village of Awre in Gloucestershire, England.
History
The first castle on the site was built in the 11th or early 12th century and was a simple timber structure.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
*Cole's Tump, an area of pillow mounds on the west side side of Orcop Hill, Herefordshire, that overlooks the village of the same name
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Congrove Field and The Tumps
Congrove Field and The Tumps is a () is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) on Lansdown Hill, north of Bath in Bath and North East Somerset, notified in 1991.
It is an area of calcareous grassland lying over Oolitic (Jura ...
: 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
Grassholm ( cy, Gwales or ) or Grassholm Island is a small uninhabited island situated off the southwestern Pembrokeshire coast in Wales, lying west of Skomer, in the community of Marloes and St Brides. It is the westernmost point in Wales ot ...
* Edmunds Tump: a hill near Grosmont in north-eastern Monmouthshire
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Hetty Pegler's Tump
Uley Long Barrow, also known locally as Hetty Pegler's Tump, is a Neolithic burial mound, near the village of Uley, Gloucestershire, England.
Details
Although typically described as a long barrow, the mound is actually a transepted gallery g ...
: 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
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Keynsham Humpy Tumps
Keynsham Humpy Tumps is a floristically rich acidic grassland site situated between the town of Keynsham, and the River Avon, southeast of Bristol, England.
The site is on a south-facing slope running alongside the Bristol to Bath railway lin ...
: site of open patches of grassland and bare rock, interspersed with blocks of scrub, alongside the Bristol to Bath railway line
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Maes Tump
Maes Knoll (sometimes Maes tump or Maes Knoll tump) is an Iron Age hill fort in Somerset, England, located at the eastern end of the Dundry Down ridge, south of the city of Bristol and north of the village of Norton Malreward near the easter ...
: 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
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Swanborough Tump
Swanborough Tump is a mound of earth in Manningford parish, Wiltshire, England. It has been considered to be a bowl barrow dating from the Bronze Age and is listed as a scheduled monument.
The mound was the meeting place of the ancient Swanbo ...
: 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 TumpImages in commons.wikimedia.org relating to Tappa's Tump accessed 22 October 2018 or "Tæppa's mound": burial mound near Taplow, Buckinghamshire
*"The Tump": ancient burial mound near
Whittington, Worcestershire
Whittington is a small village near Worcester, England, Worcester close to Junction 7 of the M5 motorway, bounded by the motorway and the B4084, in the District of Wychavon. The motorway cuts through the village, most of it being on the west si ...
*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
* Twmpath Castle, a motte-and-bailey castle in
Rhiwbina
Rhiwbina ( cy, Rhiwbeina, also ''Rhiwbina'') is a suburb and community in the north of Cardiff, the capital of Wales. Formerly a small hamlet within the parish of Whitchurch, Rhiwbina was developed throughout the twentieth century, and is now a ...
, Cardiff
* Turkey Tump: on the ridge immediately north-west of
Llanwarne
Llanwarne () is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. The population of the civil Parish as taken at the 2011 census was 380. It is about from the Welsh border, is approximately north-west of Ross-on-Wye, and near Harewood En ...
Whittington Tump
Whittington Tump or Crookbarrow Hill is a partly artificial mound in central Worcestershire, England. There is evidence of prehistoric activity at the site and may have been used as a religious site or burial mound. A Romano-British settlement ...
: central Worcestershire, a prehistoric religious site and location of a medieval castle
* 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