Pillboxes | Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
Pillbox on shingle

Pillboxes

There are many World War Two pillboxes hidden in and around the nature reserve, but the two at the mouth of the river Rother are the most obvious.

In the map below the pillbox locations are shown as red dots.

Pillboxes map

These pillboxes were designed to house Vickers machine guns, mounted on the concrete tables with their tripod legs in the depressions.

Pillboxes gun



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