Pub history

The Harvest Moon

The famous writer George Orwell described his ideal pub in a newspaper article. He called his fictional pub ‘Moon Under Water’ which is why ‘moon’ is used in the name of several Wetherspoon pubs. This pub is at the front of the Walnuts shopping centre, built in the 1970s and named after the Victorian house which had stood here, the long-time home of Mrs Vinson, whose family were large-scale growers of soft fruit.