Sierra Leone River Estuary
Bunce Island
Ruins of an 18th-century British slave-trading fort in the Sierra Leone River, a key transatlantic heritage site.
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- Heritage
Site
Attractions (9)
Old Leicester Road, Freetown hills
Heddle's Farm
Ruins of an 1820 hillside house on the old Leicester Road with views over Freetown, owned from 1859 by merchant Charles Heddle.
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- Monument
- Heritage
Plantain Island, off Shenge, Moyamba District
John Newton's House, Plantain Island
Ruins of a slave-trading compound on Plantain Island linked to John Newton, later the hymn writer of 'Amazing Grace'; proclaimed 1949.
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- Heritage
- Beach & Coastal
Nimiyama Chiefdom, Kono District
Masakpaidu Earthworks
Earthworks of a fortified Kono village from about 1800 where the Bafi and Bagbe rivers join to form the Sewa; proclaimed 1949.
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- Monument
- Heritage
Cline Town, Freetown
National Railway Museum
Museum in the old Cline Town railway workshops, showing locomotives and carriages from the former Sierra Leone Railway.
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- Heritage
- Entertainment
Cline Town, Freetown
Old Fourah Bay College
Stone ruins in Cline Town of the 1840s building of Fourah Bay College, a pioneer of university education in Africa.
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- Monument
- Heritage
Wara-Wara Yagala Chiefdom, Koinadugu District
Old Yagala Village
Hilltop stone-and-mud town built by the Limba in the 18th century as a refuge from slave raiders, with royal graves still visible.
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- Monument
- Heritage
Freetown
Sierra Leone National Museum
Freetown's national museum of history and ethnography, near the site of the former Cotton Tree.
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- Heritage
New England, Freetown
Sierra Leone Peace Museum
A museum on the former Special Court site telling the story of the 1991-2002 civil war and honouring its victims.
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- Heritage