The Moon Under Water, Manchester

The Moon Under Water is a pub in Manchester city centre, in the building of the former Deansgate Picture House cinema on Deansgate. The pub, which is 8,800 square feet (820 m²) and can hold 1,700 customers has been noted by the Guinness Book of Records as being the largest in Britain. Other sources claim it is the largest in Europe.

It is owned by the pub chain Wetherspoons who opened it as a public house on 15 August 1995, and is named after George Orwell's essay, The Moon Under Water describing his ideal pub.