Tutshill

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 the river is Chepstow railway station on the Gloucester–Newport line.

==Etymology== thumb|left|The ruined tower at Tutshill 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 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 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 the name originally meant 'Tōt's hill' or 'Tutt's hill'.