![]() For Jo, the worst thing about her new home was her new school. Jo loved living in the countryside and spent most of her time wandering across fields and along the river Wye with her sister. ![]() Two of her friends were a brother and sister whose surname just happened to be Potter! The second move was when Jo was nine and she moved to Tutshill near Chepstow in the Forest of Dean. Jo, her sister and friends used to play together in her street in Winterbourne. The first move was from Yate (just outside Bristol in the south west of England) to Winterbourne. Jo moved house twice when she was growing up. ![]() Such a funny-sounding name for a birthplace may have contributed to her talent for collecting odd names. ![]() (Jo) Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury in the UK in 1965. ![]()
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