- Tutshill
Tutshill is a small village within the parish of
Tidenham in theForest of Dean ,Gloucestershire ,England .It is located on the eastern bank of the
River Wye , which forms the boundary withWales at this point and which separates the village from the town ofChepstow . The village ofWoodcroft adjoins Tutshill to the north, and across the A48 road to the south is the village ofSedbury .The name derives from the ruined "tut", a local term for watchtower, on top of the hill overlooking the Wye and its ancient crossing point at Castleford. After the town of Chepstow developed and a bridge was built over the Wye, the main road between England and Wales followed the steep hill directly up the river bank, now a footpath, between the bridge and Tutshill, until a new road looping around Castleford was opened in 1808. [Ivor Waters, "Turnpike Roads - the Chepstow and New Passage Turnpike Districts", 1985, ISBN 0-906134-31-5] This road carried traffic between the two countries until a new bridge was built at Chepstow in 1988, whereupon Tutshill was bypassed.
The village was the childhood home, from the age of 9 in 1974, of the author
J. K. Rowling . She attended Tutshill Church of England Primary School before moving on at the age of 11 to the nearbyWyedean School in Sedbury. In the "Harry Potter " books, one of the British Quidditch teams is named Tutshill Tornados. Furthermore, in the bookHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , a passage is set in the Forest of Dean, where Harry, Hermione and Ron are camping and discover the sword of Gryffindor where it has been hidden by Severus Snape.References
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* [http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=3687627 photos of Tutshill and surrounding area on geograph]
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