Wormelow Tump is a village in Herefordshire, England, south of Hereford and 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 road, A466 – into Much Dewchurch parish.
The Bowl barrow, tump itself was a mound which local tradition holds was the burial place of King Arthur's son Amhar, Amr. The tump was flattened to widen the road in 1896.
Wormelow gave its name to a Hundred (county subdivision), 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.
The village is the site of the Violette Szabo GC Museum, commemorating the life of World War II Espionage, 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.
[Comment and Analysis article by Toby Neal, involving interview with Szabo's daughter.]
The local manor house, Bryngwyn Manor, has been converted into apartments.
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Violette Szabo GC Museum
Villages in Herefordshire
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