COPPULL, a township and a chapelry in Standish parish, Lancashire. The township lies on the Wigan and Preston railway, 6 miles N by W of Wigan; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Chorley. Acres, 2, 279. Real property, £6, 152; of which £1, 950 are in mines. Pop., 1, 230. Houses, 218. The chapelry was constituted in 1842; and was at first more extensive than the township, with a pop. of upwards of 2, 000; but is now conterminate with the township. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Manchester. Value, £120. Patron, the Rector of Standish. The church was rebuilt in 1861. There a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £44.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))