Hello I know nothing about Two Bridges but can say that the word 'Tump' is a Forest expression for a small hill. I would therefore suggest that Two Bridges Tump is no more than a raised area of Two Bridges. Bob Philpott

"Full text of "A Glossary of the Cotswold (Gloucestershire) dialect" - A-Z - by the late Rev. Richard Webster HUNTLEY M.A. (born 2 April 1794) - Boxwell Court Estate nr. Leighterton (other side of the Severn) - (amongst other occupations, Vicar of Alberbury) - who spent his younger days in Dursley.

Tump: Earth thrown up - Twmp - Welsh Idem

Tump, a hillock, timulus

also : Old Tump House, New Road, Blakeney - previous forum message (John Smith m Elizabeth VIRGO - 31.3.2010)

The Rev's article is fascinating, and I recognise some of the words from my childhood i.e. Spkreathe - 'to have face of hands roughened by frost' - remember walking to School with red face/hands and legs in the Winter. Although it doesn't explain why we called the end of a loaf (The Nobby!!)

I have the reprint of the first edition of the 1" OS map for the area (Sheet 59). 'Tump' not marked. However, there is a mound by the little road that runs into Two Bridges. On the Landranger map there is a house on it and another nearby. I have the large scale OS maps around 1900 (Soudley) but they don't quite reach Two Bridges unfortunately. Many's the time I have driven up and down the road between Blakeney and Soudley. Most, if not all the houses in the valley and hillsides are old, certainly well before 1900.

Roger

By the brook Bradley House was presumably built for Samuel Hewlett, an ironfounder who was
the occupant in 1834. (fn. 65) To the south are two mid 19th-century houses, one, Ayleford House,
dated 1866. Downstream, nearer the hamlet of Ayleford, a row of four cottages north-west of Two Bridges,
owned by Samuel Hewlett in 1834, (fn. 66) was partly derelict in 1992.

From: 'Forest of Dean: Settlement', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred,
St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 300-325.

URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23266 Date accessed: 01 April 2010.

Now compare this to the order of the 1901 Census District 21

Page 6
First on Page is Bradley Hall - James Baldwin
then 5 "dwellings" or family units before the entry for
Two Bridges tump of 2 dwellings

Page 7 is Two Bridges.and back to Ayleford

On the Explorer OS map OL14 there is a "Motte" clearly marked
just north of Ayleford before you reach Two Bridges. I suspect that the Tump you are looking for is this Motte

At Ayleford where it crossed the brook is a stone farmhouse called Rowmedley, (fn. 21) built in the 17th century and much altered in the 19th. A house nearby, where Howell's Lane crosses the parish boundary at Haie brook, was a beerhouse called the Two Bridges in the late 19th century and the early 20th. (fn. 22)

From: 'Awre', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 14-46. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23250 Date accessed: 01 April 2010.

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Have just looked at the Postal Address Book for South west (Year 2000)
Under the Cinderford section, the area of Soudley shows a property called "Tump House" with a postcode of GL14 2UB this should take you right to the doorstep.

Regards
Forest