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• Liz: Have you ever been to the Cotswolds?
• Giles: Yes, actually. I have been to the Cotswolds. I went with my mum about four years ago, I think. And we stayed in a little hotel called The Lamb Inn.
• Liz: Where is that?
• Giles: It was in the Cotswolds.
• Liz: Okay... I asked because my parents live there.
• Giles: In the Cotswolds?
• Liz: They do, yes, they live in a little village about half an hour from Cirencester. Little stone houses, golden...you know, gold stone, it's very pretty.
• Cheryl: How... Why is Cotswolds plural? I mean, what is a Cotswold?
• Liz: I don't know. I guess...about the wood...
• Giles: I believe…I believe it originally meant ‘the wood of cats’. As you can see, ‘wolds’, meaning ‘woods’, and ‘cots’, and I don't know if that means ‘cats’...
• Cheryl: …or places to sleep.
• Giles: Or cots, exactly, the wood of beds, maybe...
• Liz: Woods... I don't know what ‘cots’ is.
• Giles: What I loved about the Cotswolds was the little wooden houses and the cute little villages. All the houses and hotels built of stone, and the really luscious green grass everywhere.
• Liz: I think it looks just like the England you see on films.
• Cheryl: Oh okay, I've never been. I've been to England but I've seen pictures of the Cotswolds and I want to go there so, maybe someday...
• Liz: It's very lovely.
• Giles: Is Stonehenge in the Cotswolds?
• Liz: No, it's not. It's nearby though. It's not far away. There's various things in the Cotswolds. It was Roman, so there's a…there's a Roman villa nearby and, what else is there? William Morris's house in Kelmscott.
• Cheryl: Who?
• Liz: William Morris designed a lot of the kind of floral wallpaper, like the Strawberry Thief.
• Cheryl: Oh yeah, yeah!
• Giles: Oh, okay. And what... Do you go back to the Cotswolds often to see your family?
• Liz: Quite often, yes, but they're not from there originally, but they’ve moved there since then. It's very pretty, we go for walks, eat in pubs, it's nice.
• Cheryl: Sounds fun!

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