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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 theRiver Thames on Ferry Lane inMoulsford,Oxfordshire, England.[1][2] The restaurant has a riverside setting on the stretch of river immortalised inThe Wind in the Willows, and alsoJerome K Jerome's chronicles of the escapades of his friends inThree Men in a Boat. The unusual name refers to abeetle, a term for amaul (or hammer) used with a wedge to split wood.
In 2005 the restaurant played host toGriff Rhys Jones,Dara Ó Briain andRory McGrath, and a dog called Loli, during the filming ofThree Men in a Boat – a film broadcast and commissioned by theBBC as a modern-day reinterpretation of the travelogue by Jerome K Jerome.[citation needed]
The restaurant was listed amongst Britain's 250 Best Restaurants in theHarper's Bazaar 2009Going Out Guide.[citation needed]
The building that houses the restaurant was once a working boathouse and was last used for the ferry in 1967, when the last ferrywoman retired and the service was discontinued. The boathouse retains much of its original fittings and sits on the water's edge with the original slipway still in place.[citation needed] The building dates back to before 1860 when it was a trading inn.
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