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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"ORRELL, a township in the parish of Wigan, hundred of West Derby, county Lancaster, 3 miles W. of Wigan, its post town. It is a station on the W. section of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. The village, which is considerable, is situated near the Leeds and Liverpool canal, and on the high road to Ormskirk. In this township are extensive collieries, employing a large portion of the inhabitants. Divine service is performed in the National schoolhouse at Far-Moor. The Independents have a place of worship, and the Roman Catholics a chapel at Serenus Place, with Sunday-schools in connection. A party of Benedictine nuns from France settled at Orrell Mount in 1821."