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thesweetcheat Feb 24, 2015 07:44:03

Replying to carol27

Hello and welcome!

Tump is a mound, usually artificial, the word appears quite a lot in Herefordshire (Wormelow Tump, Aston Tump, etc) and sometimes gets applied to mottes.

I think it must also be related to Twmpa, the Welsh name of one of the peaks in the Black Mountains - the English version is the more Viz-friendly Lord Hereford's Knob. Twmpa is pronounced "Tumpa" or "Toompa".

spencer Feb 24, 2015 11:29:02

Replying to thesweetcheat

There's Burrow Mump too.. I guess names ending in -ump may indicate a raised area, manmade or natural, even if the site has been subsquently levelled.

moss Feb 25, 2015 08:55:47

Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:

Hello and welcome!

Tump is a mound, usually artificial, the word appears quite a lot in Herefordshire (Wormelow Tump, Aston Tump, etc) and sometimes gets applied to mottes.

Of course there is always something obvious that we miss, all I could think was the 'tump' the children would sledge down in the winter in Bath, and then the word tumulus came to mind. The Romans used it to describe a small lump on the landscape....

"The word tumulus is Latin for 'mound' or 'small hill" according to Wikipedia...