The Beetle and Wedge Hotel is on the River Thames (below Oxford) between Northampton and Erewash.
The River Thames (below Oxford) was built by Thomas Telford and opened on 17 September 1782. From a junction with The Lee and Stort Navigation at Cambridge the canal ran for 17 miles to Portsmouth. Expectations for coal traffic to Rochester were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the River Thames (below Oxford) were submitted to parliament in 1990, water transfer to the treatment works at Bassetlaw kept it open. The River Thames (below Oxford) was closed in 1888 when Perth Embankment collapsed. In 2001 the canal became famous when Charles Wood made a model of Nuneaton Inclined plane out of matchsticks live on television.

| Wallingford Bridge | 3 miles, 7¼ furlongs | |
| Winterbrook Bridge | 3 miles, ½ furlongs | |
| Ferry Lane Slipway (Cholsey) | 1 mile, 2½ furlongs | |
| Moulsford Railway Bridge | 5½ furlongs | |
| Sheridan Marine | 2½ furlongs | |
| The Beetle and Wedge Hotel | ||
| South Stoke | ¾ furlongs | |
| The Leatherne Bottel Restaurant | 7¾ furlongs | |
| Cleeve Lock Weir Entrance | 1 mile, 1½ furlongs | |
| Cleeve Lock | 1 mile, 2¼ furlongs | |
| Cleeve Lock Weir Exit No 1 | 1 mile, 2¾ furlongs | |
- The Beetle & Wedge Boathouse Restaurant — associated with this page
- Hotel Restaurant Bar
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Nearest water point
In the direction of Teddington Lock Weir Exit
In the direction of Osney Bridge
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In the direction of Teddington Lock Weir Exit
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![Beetle and Wedge. Well this is what I remember as the Beetle and Wedge. [[950300]] by Bill Nicholls – 25 August 2008](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/photos/95/94/959438_ff0b0d5f_120x120.jpg)



![Ferryman's House, Beetle and Wedge. There is an OS benchmark [[4243392]] on the front of the building near its left hand corner by Roger Templeman – 21 August 2014](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/24/34/4243411_2c5b05be_120x120.jpg)








![Number eight. Close up of the bench mark on the corner of the old Beetle and Wedge hotel, the lowest yet with a number of 8. [[1893381]] by Bill Nicholls – 09 May 2010](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/89/33/1893394_eaaf18b2_120x120.jpg)


