ORRELL, a township in that part of the parish of
WIGAN which is in the hundred of WEST-DERBY,
county palatine of LANCASTER, 3 miles (W.) from
Wigan, containing 2106 inhabitants. There is a place
of worship for Independents. At Orrell Mount is an
establishment of French Benedictine nuns, who, driven
by the Revolution from their native country, first settled
at Heath in Yorkshire, and in 1821 removed hither.
There are mines of coal in the neighbourhood.