Gloucester (Krio: Glɔsta) is a mountainous village in the Western Area Rural District of Sierra Leone.

Gloucester lies approximately five miles east of Freetown, and close proximity to the towns of Regent and Leicester.

Africanus Horton, born in Gloucester, described the area as presenting "the most picturesque and lovely scenery that ever eye beheld in a tropical world".

[1]: 2 Gloucester was founded by Governor Charles MacCarthy in 1814 as a settlement for liberated Africans, or recaptives, who had been freed for vessels involved in the slave trade by the West Africa Squadron.

He supervised the building of stone gothic-style church which was formally opened in 1820 with a service involving 400 recaptives.