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St Weonards Tump

Nearest town: Ross-on-Wye

Site type: historic site

Access: Public

Church name: No Data

Diocese: No Data

County: Herefordshire

Country: England

Grid ref: SO490240

Lost yew site: Yes

Date visited: No data

Recorded by: No data

Protection & responsibility: No data

Yews recorded at this site: Lost

Notes: A bronze age barrow reused as a Norman motte, excavated in 1855. It is about 70 yards SSW of St Weonards church. This is an 'ancient meeting place for one of the Herefordshire hundreds, certainly a Saxon moot site, believed to be on a prehistoric funerary mound' (Extract from The Ancient Yew by Robert Bevan-Jones).