In which English county did J.K. Rowling spend much of her childhood after moving from Yate?

J.K. Rowling spent much of her childhood in Gloucestershire after moving from Yate.

She was born in Yate, Gloucestershire, and her family later moved to Winterbourne, a village in the same county. Rowling attended Wyedean School and College in Sedbury, near Chepstow, after the family moved to Tutshill. These places are part of the landscape associated with her early life.

Rowling has described growing up in the area near the England-Wales border. The setting is sometimes confused with Edinburgh, where she later lived and wrote parts of the Harry Potter series. Edinburgh became closely linked with her adult writing career, but it was not the county of her childhood.

The locations of Rowling’s early years are relevant to biographies because they precede her university studies, moves abroad, and the long drafting period for the first Harry Potter novel.