The Tump Inn

I had meetings in The Golden Valley today. This is a beautiful and very fertile part of Herefordshire, a lovely English county. The weather was very mixed and the light patterns over the scenery were wonderful. Inevitably, the most interesting views appeared when I was driving, some of the time along the M50.

But I did happen to go through the village of Wormelow and spotted this pub sign. I stopped; no - not to sample the beer (or cider) but to capture the shot.

English pubs have a weird variety of names (one of my favourites is Samson and De Lion in West Bromwich !) and lots of interesting origins.

A Tump according to Wikipedia is another name for a Bowl Barrow

"Bowl barrows were created from the Neolithic through to the Bronze Age in Great Britain. A bowl barrow is an approximately hemispherical mound covering one or more Inhumations or cremations. Where the mound is composed entirely of stone, rather than earth, the term cairn replaces the word barrow. The mound may be simply a mass of earth or stone, or it may be structured by concentric rings of posts, low stone walls, or upright stone slabs. In addition, the mound may have a kerb of stones or wooden posts.

Barrows were usually built in isolation in various situations on plains, valleys and hill slopes, although the most popular sites were those on hilltop. Bowl barrows were first identified in Great Britain by John Thurnam, an English psychiatrist, archaeologist, and ethnologist."

And local folklore has it that The Tump Inn is named after the hill overlooking the village.

And now to look up the name of the village, Wormelow.......

Blip has a lot to answer for !