The author George Orwell wrote an article in the London Evening Standard about his favourite fictional pub which he called The Moon Under Water.
When Wetherspoon’s chairman, Tim Martin, had around seven pubs in London, a journalist visited one of them and told Tim he liked the pub and that it was similar to the pub envisaged by George Orwell – in essence, a pub with a good atmosphere, good real ales, food and no music.
Tim decided that it was a great name for a pub; in the following years, several were given this name.