Talk:Leicester, Sierra Leone

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The external link, Every Picture Tells a Story, BBC Radio Humberside, says that Leicester was formerly called Kingston-upon-Hull.

However in Anderson, Richard Peter (2020) Abolition in Sierra Leone: Re-Building Lives and Identities in Nineteenth-Century West Africa, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, p106:

"In April 1809, the Governor's Council approved an initiative to establish an 'interior settlement' in the mountains above Freetown" ... "recaptive forced laborers had already constructed a small road up the hillside from Leicester." ... "Together they [Thomas Perronet Thompson and a party of militia men and would-be settlers] christened the new settlement Kingston-in-Africa in honor of Thompson's hometown of Kingston-upon-Hull." Kylenano (talk) 18:40, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]