Worbarrow Bay Revisited Worbarrow Bay, Dorset. I first visited Warbarrow Bay near Lulworth Cove back in 1996 as […]
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OS Sheet 203: Land’s End Fishing Cove, Gunwalloe, is situated at the very southern end of Loe Bar, […]
Gunwalloe
Pendennis Castle, Cornwall Pendennis Castle guards the entrance to the River Fal at Falmouth, Cornwall. Originally built by […]
Half Moon Battery
OS 203: Land’s End Type 24 Pillbox Grid Ref: SW 5870-2758 This Type 24 Pillbox is located on […]
Hendra Beach
Type 24 Pillbox Overlooking Anti-Tank Wall A Type 24 Pillbox located on the small headland that separates Kennack […]
Kennack Sands
Porthcurno WWII Communication Bunker & Anti-Invasion Defences A Photographic ‘Look-back’ OS Sheet 203 Porthcurno, near ‘Lands End’ Porthcurno […]
Porthcurno Comms Bunker
OS Sheet 203: Land’s End Porthleven is a small fishing village situated on the edge of Mount’s Bay […]
Porthleven
Camouflaged Pillbox OS 203: Lands End. NGR: SW 5205 – 4040 Pedn Olva Point This is a very […]
St Ives
St Michael’s Mount OS: 203 Land’s End NGR: SW 5145 – 2990 (Centre of island)  ‘One-Off’ Design Pillbox […]
St Michael’s Mount
These unusual pillboxes are located at Sennen Cove, Cornwall, just around the corner from Land’s End. This pillbox […]
Sennen Cove
Seaplane Pillbox OS118 NGR: SJ926654 On a recent visit to the Peak District National Park I decided to […]
Bosley Reservoir
Arp Signal Box The great increase in railway activity in WW2 led to the development of a new […]
Crewe Coalyard
NGR SJ 5922-5763 I took these photographs of the remaining seagull trench at the former RAF Calveley, near […]
RAF Calveley Seagull Trench
A Type 27 Pillbox placed on top of an embankment overlooking the river Dee and RAF Sealand.
RAF Sealand Type 27
Located on the B3349 near Wokingham/Aborfield. NGR: SU777668 This rectangular bullet proof  variant design  can be found close to the […]
Barkham Rectangular Variant
NGR SU 680-706 At Burghfield, just a few miles South-west of Reading in Berkshire can be found an […]
Burghfield Fortified Building
Dunmill Lock, Hungerford Common, Berkshire Anti-Tank Defences On Hungerford Common Situated between the railway line and the Kennet […]
Hungerford Common Anti-Tank Defences
Following on from his recent information on Wartime Concrete in Berkshire, Philip came across this carving in a […]
Lester Birky Carving
Under Threat!  Berkshire GHQ Line Vickers Machine Gun Pillbox M4 Junction 11 April 2008 Berkshire’s possible sole surviving […]
M4 Vickers Machine Gun Pillbox
GHQ Stop-Line, Tidmarsh, Berkshire. Bridges Were Hastily Erected To Provide Access To The Pillboxes. By Mike Quigley
Tidmarsh Pillboxes
Kennet & Avon Canal, Berkshire NGR: SU618686. Having just joined the Pillbox Study Group and having received my […]
Ufton Bridge Pillbox
Although not a pillbox here is a wartime structure that I found in Berkshire in an area known […]
Wartime Concrete
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International Sites
HAA Battery, Ferry Road, Hayling Island. Ngr SZ 699994 On Sinah common at Hayling Island in Hampshire (map […]
Sinah Common HAA Site
Wartime Survivors at Sherfield on Loddon, Hampshire. A pair of tall type 22 pillboxes can be found just […]
Sherfield On Loddon Type 22s
River Whitewater GHQ Line A Defences. Ngr SU740611 Close to Heckfield Bridge near Bramshill in Hampshire are two […]
Bramshill FW3/25 Armco Pillboxes
A Preserved Spigot Mortar Base Elvetham Heath, Fleet, Hampshire Ngr SU791550 Preserving WW2 defence remains is unusual but […]
Elvetham Heath’s Spigot Mortar Base
Kent Canal Defence Beside the Royal Military Canal at Appledore in Kent is this FW3/22 Pillbox, it is […]
Appledore Pillbox
Allhallows Defences & The Battle of Britain June 1940: as German forces had now rolled up Europe and pushed […]
Allhallows Defences
Eastney Barracks,Ferry Rd and Beach Defences. Â SZ666987 The Loopholed wall can be seen surrounding part of the Royal […]
Eastney Defences, Portsmouth.
Watchers or defence post, Chichester Harbour. Ngr SZ751987 This very unusual structure was found on the far east […]
Emsworth Channel, Hayling Island, Watchers Post.
Military Concrete Remains on Hazeley Heath, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire. NGR SU764577 Situated on Hazeley Heath Common near Hartley Wintney are […]
Hazeley Heath Tank Testing Ramp
 Ngr SU832554 This type 22 variant pillbox situated alongside the main south coast line at Cove near Farnborough […]
Southern Railway Pillboxes, Farnborough.
Taylors Gate Guard House Defence.  Ngr SU667564 Although it is not accessible due to its location on Ministry of […]
Bramley C.A.D Depot Guard House Pillbox
Un-Recorded Railblock and Pillbox East of Aldershot Ngr SU889439 An un recorded part of the east defence ring […]
Tongham, Aldershot, East Ring Defences.
 Canal Crossing Road Block  Ngr SU852527 These substantial road block posts can be found on the north […]
Claycart Bridge Road Block, Basingstoke Canal, Aldershot.
There are at least half a dozen of the common type 22 pillboxes that can be found dotted around […]
Hayling Island’s FW3/22 Pillboxes
Aldershots Anti-Aircraft Post Ngr SU856513 This very basic, unusual and rare Anti-Aircraft Defence Post is located centre of […]
Aldershot Open Light Anti-Aircraft Post
Aldershot Ring Defence, Pillbox, Basingstoke Canal. Ngr SU 860522 An unusual small rectangular pillbox can be found beside […]
Aldershot, Rectangular Pillbox, Basingstoke Canal.
Concealed and Disguised Pillboxes at Beaulieu, New Forest, Hampshire Ngr SU387023 Many people will recognise this unusual building […]
Beaulieu’s Disguised Dairyhouse Pillbox
Unrecorded Defended Barn, Test Valley, Hampshire Ngr: SU377392 I came across this very unusual and rare defended building […]
Defended Barn,Fullerton.
This Section lists some defences by County. It isn’t meant to be comprehensive and most new stuff now […]
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This unusual hexagonal pillbox can be found behind a hedgerow not far from the entrance to the Imperial […]
Duxford Pillbox
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