Teddington Lock
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Search complete. 6 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Teddington Lock".
Sep 17, 2026
David TuckerHOST
The Tidal Thames does effectively finish at Teddington.
David TuckerHOST
Teddington Lock.
David TuckerHOST
Teddington Weir.
David TuckerHOST
Tides on one side.
Jeannette LinfootHOST
So what is the lock through? Well, let me show you a bit of an analogy.
Jeannette LinfootHOST
Visualise a picture where we have a barge, okay? Think of, if you've ever been down to London, the Teddington Lock, for example.
Jeannette LinfootHOST
And what happens when a barge goes through the lock? What a great conversation we're having with this episode.
Jeannette LinfootHOST
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Nick WhitleyNARRATOR
CHAPTER 64 THE HORNS while looking for violet effingham phineas encountered madame goesler among a crowd of people who were watching the adventurous embarkation of certain daring spirits in a pleasure-boat There were watermen there in the Duke's livery ready to take such spirits down to Richmond or up to Teddington Lock, and many daring spirits did take such trips, to the great peril of muslins, ribbons, and starch, to the peril also of ornamental summer white garments, so that when the thing was over the boats were voted to have been a bore.
Nick WhitleyNARRATOR
are you going to venture said phineas to the lady i should like it of all things if i were not afraid for my clothes will you come i was never very good on the water i should be sea-sick to a certainty they are going down beneath the bridge too and we should be splashed by the steamers i don't think my courage is high enough Thus Phineas excused himself, being still intent on prosecuting his search for Violet.
Nick WhitleyNARRATOR
Then neither will I, said Madame Gosler.
Jason ElkinsHOST
Mm-hmm.
Alice ToddGUEST
So before you get to kind of Teddington Lock, so yeah, south-
Jason ElkinsHOST
Mm
Alice ToddGUEST
... uh, west, I guess.
Sophie AldredHOST
It's fascinating, isn't it? It's funny 'cause my son William, he did, uh, um, he did a lot of acting when he was younger, and he was in a Hollywood movie with Mark Ruff- playing Mark, young Mark Ruffalo, and, uh, and Morgan Freeman he met.
Sophie AldredHOST
And again, he had to do this scene which, where he s- watches his father drowning in a tank, a sort of Houdini tank thing at Teddington Lock, which was...
Sophie AldredHOST
I can't remember where it was meant to be.
Sophie AldredHOST
Uh, somewhere in America.
Rory McGowanHOST
and can take a traveller from Letchdale in Gloucestershire, through Oxford and all the way to Gravesend in Kent.
Rory McGowanHOST
From Teddington Lock in West London all the way to the Thames Estuary, the river is affected by the tide, which means that it's unsafe for some boats like canal boats to go beyond that boundary.
Rory McGowanHOST
For the UK's longest river, the River Severn, there are 220 miles between the mouth near Bristol and the source near the Cambrian Mountains in Wales.
Rory McGowanHOST
With permission, you can choose to travel all 220 of those miles on the water.