Pill Box - Harbour Road, Lydney, Gloucestershire, UK
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Dragontree
N 51° 42.556 W 002° 31.062
30U E 533324 N 5728812
Along the walk to Lydney Harbour is this pill box overlooking the Severn estuary.
Waymark Code: WMM9E8
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/17/2014
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The pill box is an octagonal design made from reinforced concrete. Roger Davies describes it on the Geograph website:
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'An unusual octagonal pillbox of reinforced concrete construction with 8 embrasures. Unlike the standard type FW/3 27 it has no central well for an anti-aircraft weapon. A blast wall protects a low entrance in its western side suggesting that its role was primarily to defend an attack from the south along the River Severn. Although a fine observation platform, the numerous embrasures appear to offer little protection for the occupants although a small oblong anti-ricochet wall exists (which may possibly have been inserted as an afterthought as a support for the roof).'