"But now is the time to reveal something which the discerning and disillusioned reader will probably have guessed already. There is no such place as `The Moon under Water'.

"That is to say, there may well be a pub of that name, but I don't know of it, nor do I know of any pub with just that combination of qualities [scil. draught stout, china mugs, open fires, cheap meals, a garden, motherly barmaids, no radio, the solid comfortable ugliness of the nineteenth century, & the availability of pipe tobacco, aspirin, & stamps]."

-- George Orwell, _Evening Standard_, 9 February 1946

Did the Wetherspoons pay attention?