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| - British hardened field defences of World War II
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| - Pillbox type FW3/23. Note rectangular plan featuring a roofed fighting compartment and an open anti-aircraft compartment .
- Pillbox Type Dover Quad. Note square plan with wide embrasures. The extent of the overhanging roof shown as a dotted line.
- Pillbox FW3/28A built to shell proof standard. Note rectangular plan with large embrasure and a separate rifle or light machine gun fighting compartment.
- Pillbox Type Lozenge. Note stretched hexagonal plan with central anti-ricochet wall.
- An Essex Lozenge at Burnham on Crouch .
- Detail of CRE 1113 Type 22 variant.
- Eastern Command Type Pillbox.
- Examples of ROF type pillboxes.
- Examples of a Section Post and Seagull Trench.
- Northumberland D Type Pillbox.
- Pillbox Type Lincolnshire three-bay built to bulletproof standard. Note rectangular plan featuring two roofed fighting compartments and a central slightly raised platform for anti-aircraft weapon .
- Pillbox Type FW3/26. Note simple square plan.
- Pillbox Type FW3/25, horizontal section at the level of the embrasures. Note simple circular plan.
- Type FW3/24 built by Mowlems using circular external Shuttering.
- Pillbox Type Eared. Note large embrasures with projecting boxes and small internal anti-ricochet wall. Also, two entrances, each facing in the same direction as the embrasures.
- Pillbox Type FW3/24 built to shell proof standard. Note irregular hexagonal plan and Y shaped internal anti-ricochet wall.
- Vickers Machine Gun Post. Note approximately square plan with one large embrasure, a trapezoidal table and a free standing anti-ricochet wall protecting the entrance.
- Pillbox Type FW3/27 built to shell proof standard. Note regular octagonal plan with central compartment with a slightly raised platform open to the sky for anti-aircraft weapon and heavily protected entrance.
- Norcon Pillbox. Note small size, circular plan and thin walls. The checked area represents additional sandbag protection.
- Pentagonal pillboxes are only found at or near airfields.
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| - Extant example of Norcon Pillbox at Moreton Ford, near Weymouth, Dorset. .
- Horizontal section of octagonal version at the level of the embrasures.
- Variant FW3/23 with 4 embrasures and an internal anti-ricochet wall.
- A CRE 1113 Type 22 variant at Burnham on Crouch.
- A Cantilever Pillbox at Southend Airport.
- A Suffolk Square at Benacre.
- Cantilevered pillbox cross section.
- Cantilevered pillbox plan view.
- Central well of hexagonal CRE 1113 variant.
- Eastern Command Type 22 variant plan.
- Eastern Command Variant pillbox plan view.
- Extant example at Western Heights, Dover, Kent. .
- Extant example in Saltfleetby in Lincolnshire. .
- Extant example in Speeton in North Yorkshire. .
- Extant hexagonal example at Sudbury, Suffolk. .
- Horizontal section at the level of the embrasures.
- Example of a Mowlem Drum on the River Wey near Chilworth.
- Pillbox type FW3/28A twin.
- Plan View of a D type Pillbox.
- Plan View of an Essex Lozenge at embrasure level.
- Plan view of an ROF type pillbox.
- ROF Pillbox at Blakemore Hill.
- ROF type pillbox at ROF Steeton.
- Extant example of a FW3/23 variant at St Martin's Battery, Western Heights, Dover. .
- Section post interior.
- Extant example of a bulletproof version at Curzon Bridges near Pirbright, Surrey. .
- WW2 Seagull trench at former RAF Stoke Orchard.
- Pentagonal pillbox at Alton Barnes, one of five at this former airfield.
- Extant example at Atwick in the East Riding of Yorkshire. .
- Horizontal section of a bulletproof version at the level of the embrasures note the regular hexagonal shape.
- A D type built into the bank of a road near Eglingham. .
- A rear view of an eastern Command Type pillbox showing the huge blast wall covering the entrance.
- The rear section of an Essex Lozenge at Burnham on Crouch
- Extant example near St Catherine's Chapel near Abbotsbury in Dorset. . A part of the Coastal Crust.
- Suffolk Square Pillbox plan at the level of the embrasures.
- Type 28 Infantry variant on the GHQ line in Surrey.
- The front section of an Essex Lozenge at Burnham on Crouch
- Standard FW3/23 with 3 embrasures and no anti-ricochet wall.
- Extant example at Poulters Bridge on the Basingstoke Canal near Crookham Village, Hampshire. A part of GHQ Line.
- Plan view of a pentagonal pillbox and its AA variant
- Plan of a Type 22 thick walled version commonly found in Oxfordshire. Note that the rear wall is not thickened to save concrete and allow for the rear embrasure which gives this version the superficial appearance of a [[#Type 24
- Extant example at Dun Mill Lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, near Hungerford, Berkshire. . A part of GHQ Line.
- Extant example near Donyatt in Somerset. . A part of Taunton Stop Line.
- Extant example at Sheephatch Lane near Tilford, Surrey. . A part of GHQ Line.
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