Lancashire was a centre of Quakerism. George Fox started the movement after climbing Pendle Hill, a few miles north of Whalley. Whalley itself is famous for its ruined abbey.
There was a Quaker meeting at Standish, to the north of Wigan. The Quaker Burial Ground is by the A49 at the northern end of the place, just before Pepper Lane.
The Meeting House was on School Lane, but by 1858 had been converted into a Methodist chapel.
Little Marsden, by the way, is now known as Nelson. The name change came about because the railway station was close to a pub named after the hero of Trafalgar.
