- Wormelow Tump
Wormelow Tump is a village in
Herefordshire ,England , 11 km (7mile s) south ofHereford and 15 km (9 miles) north west ofRoss-on-Wye .The tump itself was a mound which local tradition holds was the burial place of
King Arthur 's sonAmyr . The tump was destroyed during road widening in 1896.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. [Herefordshire Sites and Monuments Record - Anglo-Saxon Life, [http://www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk/saxon_viking/saxon_life.htm] retrieved2006 -06-24 .]The village is the site of a museum commemorating the life of
World War II secret agentViolette Szabo .Map sources
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