27-585: Tutshill is a village within the parish of Tidenham in the Forest of Dean , Gloucestershire , England. It is located on the eastern bank of the River Wye , which forms the boundary with Monmouthshire at this point and which separates the village from the town of Chepstow . The village of Woodcroft adjoins Tutshill to the north, and across the A48 road to the south is the village of Sedbury . A short walk over
54-459: A "pre-prep" for children under the age of eight. Founded in 1923, the school is situated in grounds overlooking Chepstow Castle. The village was the childhood home, from the age of nine in 1974, of the author J. K. Rowling . She attended Tutshill Church of England Primary School before moving on at the age of eleven to the nearby Wyedean School in Sedbury. Her childhood home, Church Cottage ,
81-476: A Design Technology Block. The Sixth Form block has been built to accommodate increased numbers of A-Level students. The Big Bean Café opened 2016, which allows students (including one apprenticeship) to learn how to become a barista. Admittance to Wyedean School and Sixth Form Centre is non-denominational and Wyedean accepts both male and female students between the ages of 11 and 18. Wyedean currently has around 1,100 students (02/2019). The Principal of Wyedean
108-525: A mid-19th century Gothic-style Grade II listed building designed by the architect Henry Woodyer , was put up for sale in 2011. The character Severus Snape in the Harry Potter books was partly based on Sylvia Morgan, a teacher at her primary school, and on one of her teachers at Wyedean School, John Nettleship . In the book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , a passage is set in
135-439: A school on the road between the two hamlets. The church, dedicated to St. Luke, is a Gothic stone building comprising a nave with a bellcot at the south-eastern corner, a chancel, and a north aisle added in 1872. There was another period of expansion in the late 19th century and early years of the 20th, and there was a major increase in the population in the middle years of the 20th century when new housing-estates were built. There
162-475: Is Gwennan Jeremiah. Jodie Howells is the Vice-Principal (Finance and Business) and Dai Thomas is the Vice-Principal (Academic). The Sixth Form has two Head Boys and two Head Girls, known as 'The Team Leaders'. Every year a new set of team leaders is elected to represent the students, by the students. The Team Leaders also head a network of teams within the sixth form. J. K. (Joanne) Rowling , author of
189-566: Is served by Chepstow railway station on the Gloucester to Newport Line . Wyedean School Wyedean School and Sixth Form Centre is a secondary school with academy status in Sedbury , Gloucestershire , England, just across the border from Chepstow , Wales. Wyedean School was rated 'Good' by OfSTED in January 2018. The school is close to the A48 road and less than a mile from
216-521: The Forest of Dean area of England, a significant number travel from within Wales. It was also the school of J. K. Rowling , author of the Harry Potter series. The school has a sports hall which can be rented in the evenings; a learning resource centre with IT facilities; a canteen, where hot and cold food can be purchased; a music suite, equipped with computers linked to recording equipment; and
243-455: The Forest of Dean , where Harry , Hermione and Ron are camping and discover the Sword of Gryffindor where it has been hidden by Snape. Tutshill is also the home of a fictional professional Quidditch team operating within the Harry Potter universe . The Tutshill Tornados are one of thirteen fictional Quidditch teams that play in the professional Quidditch League of Britain and Ireland that
270-504: The Harry Potter books, was Head Girl in 1982. Her mother, Anne Rowling, had worked there as a technician in the Science Department from 1978. During July 2006, the school library was dedicated to J. K. Rowling. Although she has made it clear that she did not always enjoy her time at Wyedean, citing teachers and loneliness, her website states that she and her sister "both loved their school days" there. She has stated that
297-704: The Welsh border. Tidenham is bounded by the River Wye (which forms the Welsh border) to the west and the River Severn to the south. Offa's Dyke runs through the western part of the parish, terminating at Sedbury cliff above the River Severn. The village, once known as Dyddanhamme, is one of the most heavily documented Saxon villages in Britain and has been home to a grand manor of some kind since at least
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#1732798055316324-585: The Wye Valley lying within the parish includes several popular rock climbing cliffs at Wintour's Leap near Woodcroft and the Devil's Pulpit , a famous rock formation and viewpoint overlooking Tintern Abbey . The parish also contains Tidenham Chase - the largest remaining fragment of lowland heathland in Gloucestershire . Also notable is the former Dayhouse Quarry which, after providing traffic for
351-490: The Wye Valley , and joined the mainline near Tidenham, was closed in 1959 and was later the centre of several failed attempts to re-open it. In 2021 the route, known as the Wye Valley Greenway and including a 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) tunnel, was opened for walkers and cyclists. An electoral ward in the same name exists. The population and area of the ward is identical to the parish quoted above. The area
378-737: The 6th century AD. The Saxon structure was owned by the Abbot of Bath, who retained some of the documents on what was then an important location until the Dissolution of the Monasteries . The current Tidenham Manor, built in 2005 in the Palladian style, overlooks the river and is adjacent to the Norman parish church of St Mary’s and St Peter’s . The parish includes the villages of Tidenham, Beachley , Sedbury , Tutshill and Woodcroft ,
405-676: The River Severn from Beachley to Aust and now this route is followed by the Severn Bridge one of whose piers stands on the Beachley peninsula although the bridge itself begins in Wales. From Roman times the River Wye has been bridged between Tutshill and Chepstow . The area was previously served by Tidenham railway station on the Wye Valley Railway . The railway, which once ran from Chepstow through Tintern up
432-591: The Welsh border and as such, it accepts students from across the border. Wyedean School is a mixed comprehensive school , with 1,100 students, including 300 in the Sixth Form . It was first set up in 1973 and was then moved in 1976 to its present location. The school is located in Gloucestershire, and falls within the English, not Welsh, education system. Although the majority of its students live in
459-541: The Wye above Chapelhouse Wood is recorded in 1584); this windmill may have been later adapted as a folly , leading to a local tradition that the ruined mill had been a look-out tower. In any case, to explain the s of Tutshill , the word * tōt would have to have been in the genitive case , and there seems to be no parallel for the use of that word in this way. The name is therefore thought by scholars to take its first element from an Old English personal name Tōt or Tutt . Thus
486-421: The character of Professor Snape was partly based on a chemistry teacher who taught at the school, understood to be John Nettleship . One of her teachers, Tim Ryan, has also said that he believes that other teachers were a direct influence on some of her characters. When she returned to the area in 2001 to film part of a biographical TV programme, she visited the nearby Tutshill Primary School but did not pay
513-531: The crossroads were sold, and by 1843 there were houses extending along the roads to the north and east with the Cross Keys Inn at the corner. By 1856 Tutshill was already a minor centre with two public-houses, a shop, a post office, a solicitor's office, and a private school. By this time the growing population of the Tutshill and Woodcroft area of the parish was recognized by the building of a church and
540-552: The hamlets of Boughspring , Stroat and Wibdon , and the deserted village of Lancaut . According to the United Kingdom Census 2001 the parish had a population of 5,316, increasing to 5,486 at the 2011 census. Tidenham, Beachley and Woolaston were added to Gloucestershire by the first Act of Union of England and Wales in 1536; previously they had been part of the Marcher lordship of Striguil . The stretch of
567-402: The name originally meant 'Tōt's hill' or 'Tutt's hill'. Tutshill was once common land in "Bishton tithing" to the south of Tidenham Chase. The only house near the crossroads at Tutshill before the 19th century was apparently Tutshill Farm recorded from 1655. After the town of Chepstow developed and a bridge was built over the Wye, the main road between Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire followed
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#1732798055316594-420: The place owes its name to a ruined watchtower on top of the hill overlooking the River Wye and its ancient crossing point at Castleford, also having a distant view of the River Severn and its estuary. However, the ruins are of uncertain date, and although they have been supposed to be from an Anglo-Norman watchtower linked to Chepstow Castle , they may also be from a later windmill (a windmill overlooking
621-540: The remaining fragment of the former railway to Monmouth , is now home to the National Diving and Activity Centre . Miss Grace's Lane is a natural cave system approximately 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) long and is the second-longest cave in the Forest of Dean area. Located as it is between the Wye and Severn the area has always been important as a site for crossing these rivers. Historically ferries crossed
648-595: The river is Chepstow railway station on the Gloucester–Newport line . The name Tutshill is first attested in 1635, as Tutteshill , with the spelling Tutshill first appearing in 1655. The second element of the name is agreed to have originated in the Old English word hyll ('hill'). The first element of the name could derive from a word * tōt , thought to have existed in Old English , meaning 'a look-out'. This explanation has given rise to suppositions that
675-480: The steep hill directly up the river bank between the bridge and Tutshill – now a footpath linking Chepstow to the Offa's Dyke Path – until a new road looping around Castleford Hill was opened in 1808. This road carried traffic between the two counties until a new bridge was built at Chepstow in 1988, whereupon Tutshill was bypassed. The expansion of Tutshill had begun by 1828 when building-plots north-east of
702-455: Was a railway station, Tutshill Halt , near Tutshill which was closed in 1959. Today many of the residents commute to nearby cities such as Bristol, Bath, Cardiff or Gloucester. Tutshill Church of England Primary School is located in the village and caters for children from the ages of 4 to 11. In addition, Dean Close St. John's is an independent co-educational day and boarding preparatory school with all-year round day nurseries and
729-476: Was established in 1674. The team players wear sky-blue robes emblazoned with a double "T" in dark blue on the chest and back. In the early 20th century the fictional team set a British and Irish record by winning the League Cup five times in a row. Tidenham Tidenham ( / ˈ t ɪ d ən ə m / ) is a village and civil parish in the Forest of Dean of west Gloucestershire , England, adjoining
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