Geregia

Geregia stood on the south bank of the Bintang Bolong, a creek leading to the Gambia River. Portuguese and African inhabitants lived at this trading settlement, where a church gave the place a name associated with the Portuguese word for church. English merchants traded there from the mid-seventeenth century. In 1730 a visitor recorded a company post buying beeswax and cotton, and negotiations with the local king over where its trading house could be built.