Wormelow Tump

{{Short description|Village in Herefordshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox UK place  | official_name = | country = England | region = West Midlands  | static_image_name = WormelowTump.jpg | static_image_caption = The Tump Inn  | os_grid_reference = SO4910930347 | map_type = Herefordshire | coordinates = {{coord|51.969|N|2.741|W|type:city(50)_region:GB|display=inline, title}}  | post_town = Bromyard | postcode_area = HR | postcode_district = HR2  | constituency_westminster = Hereford and South Herefordshire | civil_parish = Much Birch | civil_parish1 = Much Dewchurch  | unitary_england = Herefordshire | lieutenancy_england = Herefordshire }} '''Wormelow Tump''' is a village in Herefordshire, England, {{convert|6|mi||0}} south of Hereford and {{convert|6+1/2|mi||0|abbr=on}} 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/articles/2008/12/05/graves_mordred_much_dewchurch_feature.shtml|title=Places – Arthurian Connections|last=Goodwin|first=Nicola|date=13 November 2014|website=BBC Hereford & Worcester|access-date=27 February 2018}}</ref> The tump was flattened to widen the road in 1896.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/herefordshires-past/the-anglo-saxon-period/life/|title=The Anglo-Saxon Period|last=Greene|first=Miranda|date=2005|website=Herefordshire Through Time|publisher=Herefordshire Council|language=en|access-date=28 February 2018}}</ref>

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.<ref name=":0" />

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.<ref>{{cite news|title=My mother, the heroine and spy|work=Shropshire Star|date=30 June 2015|page=8}}Comment and Analysis article by Toby Neal, involving interview with Szabo's daughter.</ref>

The local manor house, Bryngwyn Manor, has been converted into apartments.

==Map sources== {{oscoor gbx|SO492303}}

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==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Wormelow}} * [http://violetteszabomuseum.org.uk/ Violette Szabo GC Museum]

Category:Villages in Herefordshire