Wormelow Tump
| Wormelow Tump | |
| Herefordshire | |
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 Hay Bluff from Tump Road | |
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| Grid reference: | SO492303 |
| Location: | 51°58’8"N, 2°44’28"W |
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| Council: | Herefordshire |
Wormelow Tump is a village in Herefordshire, six miles south of Hereford and six and a half miles north-west of Ross-on-Wye.
Wormelow gives its name to the Wormelow Hundred of Herefordshire.
The tump itself from which the village is named 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]
History
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 tiny Violette Szabo GC Museum, commemorating the life of Violette Szabo (née Bushell), who during the Second World War served as an agent for the Special Operations Executive in Occupied France. She was ultimately caught and executed in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, and posthumously received the George Cross. Szabo 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.
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References
- ↑ Places – Arthurian Connections: Nicola Goodwin, 13 November 2014 on BBC Hereford & Worcester
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Greene, Miranda: Herefordshire Through Time: The Anglo-Saxon Period (Herefordshire Council)
- ↑ "My mother, the heroine and spy". Shropshire Star: p. 8. 30 June 2015.Comment and Analysis article by Toby Neal, involving interview with Szabo's daughter.