Gwent Height

Gwent Height is a neighborhood in Western Area, Sierra Leone. Gwent Height is situated nearby to the neighborhood Rigin, as well as near Simiria Town.

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Stadium and Freetown Central Prison.

National Stadium

Stadium

Photo: Dorothy Voorhees, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Siaka Stevens National Stadium, commonly known informally as the National Stadium, is the national stadium of Sierra Leone, located in the capital city of Freetown.

Freetown Central Prison, commonly known as Pademba Road Prison, is a prison on Pademba Road in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The prison was built to house 220 prisoners in the pre-independence era and now holds around 2,000 prisoners.

National Museum

Museum

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Sierra Leone National Museum, previously known as the Sierra Leone Museum and the Museum of the Sierra Leone Society, is the national museum of Sierra Leone. it is located at the junction of Siaka Stevens Street and Pademba Road in central Freetown. National Museum is situated 3 km northeast of Gwent Height.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wilberforce and Freetown.

Wilberforce

Suburb

Wilberforce is a neighborhood in the West End of Freetown, Sierra Leone. It is home to the Wilberforce military barracks, one of the largest in the country and the main barracks of the Sierra Leone military.

Freetown

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Freetown is the capital city of Sierra Leone and is the heart of the Western region, with around a million inhabitants. It is on a peninsula on the south bank of the estuary of the Sierra Leone River.

Tower Hill

Suburb

Tower Hill is an affluent government and residential neighborhood in central Freetown, Sierra Leone. Tower Hill is located within the central business district in downtown Freetown. Tower Hill is situated 3 km northeast of Gwent Height.

Gwent Height

Type: Neighborhood
Category: locality
Location: Western Area, Sierra Leone, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude

8.4638° or 8° 27′ 50″ north

Longitude

-13.25131° or 13° 15′ 5″ west

Open location code

6CW8FP7X+GF

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3357583606

OpenStreetMap feature

place=neighbourhood

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Localities in the Area

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