In which English county did J.K. Rowling grow up after her family moved from Bristol?

J.K. Rowling grew up in Gloucestershire after her family moved from the Bristol area.

Rowling was born near Bristol, but her family moved when she was young to Winterbourne, a village in South Gloucestershire. They later moved to Tutshill, near Chepstow, which is in Gloucestershire on the English side of the River Wye. These places formed an important part of her childhood background.

Rowling attended Wyedean School and College in Sedbury, close to Tutshill. Accounts of her early life often connect the landscape around the Forest of Dean and the Wye Valley with memories that later influenced her writing, although individual Harry Potter locations do not map directly onto one childhood address.

Gloucestershire is sometimes confused with Bristol because Yate General Hospital, her birthplace, is in the Bristol area. Birthplace and county of upbringing are separate details.