Pillboxes And Anti-invasion Defences

The anti-invasion defences of 1940 were built along the existing earthwork bank of the sea wall. The concrete structures have survived well, but the trenches that once accompanied them have long since been filled in. The pillboxes here are of two kinds. Close to the modern car park is a hexagonal Type 22, with the marks of the corrugated iron that was used as shuttering clearly visible. The remainder are ‘Lincolnshire Three Bay’ pillboxes, with the central chamber for anti-aircraft fire, although there is one variant, where this chamber is placed to one side. An unusual survival is a ruck machine gun post, which is partially hidden in undergrowth a few hundred metres to the west, but is one of the best preserved in the country. There are the remains of anti-tank cubes alongside the modern car park and taken together give a good impression of how this part of the coast was defended.

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