River Orwell pre-Celtic; but "-well" probably indicates an Anglo-Saxon naming. In "A tour through England and Wales" written in 1722, Daniel Defoe calls the river "Orwel" (though does this inconsistently). He also mentions that "a traveller will hardly understand me, especially a seaman, when I speak of the River Stour and the River Orwell at Harwich, for they know them by no other names than those of Maningtre-Water, and Ipswich-Water". The writer Eric Blair chose the pen name under which he would later become famous, "George Orwell", because of his love for the river. A few miles north of the Orwell is
Orwell, Ohio Orwell, Ohio Orwell is a village in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,660 at the 2010 census. A post office called Orwell has been in operation since 1826. The name Orwell is derived from Orwell, Vermont, the native home of an early settler. Orwell is located at (41.531648, -80.859488). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,660 people, 642 households, and 411 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 706 housing units at an