Beetle and Wedge, Goring and Streatley

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The Beetle and Wedge Boathouse is a restaurant set on the site of the Moulsford ferry service, on a bank of the River Thames on Ferry Lane in Moulsford, Oxfordshire, England. The restaurant has a riverside setting on the stretch of river immortalised in The Wind in the Willows, and also Jerome K Jerome's chronicles of the escapades of his friends in Three Men in a Boat. The unusual name refers to a beetle, a term for a maul used with a wedge to split wood. ()

Coordinates: 51°32'55"N, 1°8'45"W

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Ferry LaneGoring and Streatley United Kingdom

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+44 1491 651381

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Day trips

Beetle and Wedge – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Goring & Streatley Golf Club, Basildon Park, Wallingford Museum, Bear at Home.

1.9 miS
Golf
Goring & Streatley Golf Club, Goring and Streatley
48 min walk • Goring & Streatley Golf Club is a golf course in the village of Streatley, in the English county of Berkshire. It takes its name partly from that village, and partly from the adjoining village of Goring-on-Thames in the county of Oxfordshire. The course adjoins the National Trust properties of Lardon Chase, the Holies and Lough Down.
3.6 miS
Georgian manor with parkland and a garden
Basildon Park, Reading
91 min walk • Basildon Park is a country house situated 2 miles south of Goring-on-Thames and Streatley in Berkshire, between the villages of Upper Basildon and Lower Basildon. It is owned by the National Trust and is a Grade I listed building.
3.7 miN
History museum, Museum, Archaeological museum
Wallingford Museum, Wallingford
95 min walk • Wallingford Museum is a museum with collections of local interest, housed in a Tudor house in High Street, Wallingford, Oxfordshire.
4 miNW
Nightlife
Bear at Home, Didcot
103 min walk • The Bear at Home is an English 16th-century public house in the South Oxfordshire village of North Moreton, near Wallingford. It retains many original 16th-century features, including timber-framed walls, inglenook fireplace and a well, and was extended in 1980 to allow it to serve food.
4.3 miE
Church
St Peter and St Paul
111 min walk • St Peter and St Paul is the Church of England parish church of Checkendon, a village in Oxfordshire, England. Its parish is part of the Diocese of Oxford. Its earliest parts are 12th-century and it is a Grade I listed building.
3.6 miN
Gothic Revival architecture, Church
St Mary-le-More, Wallingford
93 min walk • St Mary-le-More is a Church of England parish church in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England. The church is situated in the centre of The Marketplace, just behind the Town Hall.
1.2 miS
Bridge
Cleeve Lock, Goring-on-Thames
31 min walk • Cleeve Lock is a lock on the River Thames, in Oxfordshire, England. It is located just upstream of Goring and Streatley villages, on the eastern side of the river within the village of Goring.
0.7 miN
Bridge
Moulsford Railway Bridge, Chiltern Hills
18 min walk • Moulsford Railway Bridge, also known locally as "Four Arches" bridge, is a pair of parallel bridges located a little to the north of Moulsford and South Stoke in Oxfordshire, UK.
2.7 miS
Bridge
Gatehampton Railway Bridge, Goring-on-Thames
68 min walk • Gatehampton Railway Bridge, otherwise referred to as Gatehampton Viaduct, is a railway bridge carrying the Great Western Main Line over the River Thames in Lower Basildon, Berkshire, England.
3.2 miN
Gothic Revival architecture, Church
St Mary's Church, Wallingford
82 min walk • St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the hamlet of Newnham Murren, Oxfordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
3.3 miNW
Archaeological site
Blewburton Hill
85 min walk • Blewburton Hill is the site of an Iron Age hillfort located in Oxfordshire, in the southeast of England. It was a univallate hillfort. The area is mostly farmland with some small areas of wooded copse to the south and the northeast.