{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Virginia, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{unreferenced|date=August 2017}} {{notability|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Britain, Virginia |official_name = |settlement_type = Unincorporated community |nickname = |motto =

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==History== Originally known as Guinea, the village of Britain—named after Michigan senator Calvin Britain—became the place of settlement for a free African American community in the mid 19th century. Mount Sinai Free Baptist Church was built here in 1880 and served as a school for the community until 1915. Unlike most of the black settlements in Loudoun County, Britain had a post office in operation. Its African American residents began to move elsewhere in the early 19th century with the last black families leaving Britain in the 1920s.

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