Thesaurus Term/Concept: PILLBOX

Identifier 123501
Class DEFENCE OF BRITAIN
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note An often squat building with thick, loopholed walls and a flat roof, designed to accommodate a variety of weapons, usually strategically positioned to cover a vulnerable point in a defensive system.

Broader Terms/Concepts (1)

Related Terms/Concepts (2)

Narrower Terms/Concepts (31)

Instances/Examples (39)

Context Record
Monument Type MXS19409 A square pillbox of World War II date is visible at the end of a section of sea bank in Walberswick parish (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26191 Demolished pillbox (Monument)
Monument Type MSF23940 First World War pillbox (Monument)
Monument Type MSF29368 Gainsborough Sports and Community Centre, Braziers Wood Road, Ipswich. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26371 Large World War II square pillbox. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26169 Martello Tower Z (WW2) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26414 Pillbox (Building)
Monument Type MSF26180 Pillbox (destroyed) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26091 Pillbox (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26128 Pillbox (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26182 Pillbox (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26190 Pillbox (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26444 Pillbox [plotted from German aerial photograph]. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26445 Pillbox [plotted from German aerial photograph]. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26446 Pillbox [plotted from German aerial photograph]. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26447 Pillbox [plotted from German aerial photograph]. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26419 Pillbox, no specification. Henry Wills lists a polygonal pillbox, of mixed material construction, at this grid reference. Today all that remains is a… (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26187 Possible former Second World War pillbox (Monument)
Monument Type MSF25967 Reported site of a World War II pillbox. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26186 Site of a demolished World War II pillbox. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26188 Site of a former World War II pillbox. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26189 Site of a World War II pillbox. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26448 Square concrete pillbox at RAF Bentwaters (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26383 This pillbox was noted on a visit in 1998. A further visit in December 1999 shows it to have been recently removed, and there is no surviving trace o… (Monument)
Monument Type MXS19284 Two pillboxes, one with an with associated trench, between Robinson's Marshes and Town Marshes (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26061 Type 22 pillbox (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26060 Unknown type of pillbox, sited on N side of bridge just behind parapet wall, now destroyed. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26103 World War II 5-sided pillbox with external blast wall. (Monument)
Monument Type MXS19250 World War II pillbox and earthworks. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF17052 World War II pillbox within a medieval Abbey chapel (Monument)
Monument Type MSF20939 World War II pillbox, non standard design. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26192 World War II pillbox, now demolished. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26193 World War II pillbox, now demolished. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26075 World War II pillbox, part of Bawdsey radar station ground defences. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26016 World War II pillbox, type 22. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF25970 World War II pillbox. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26020 World War II pillbox. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26078 World War II single storey pillbox. (Monument)
Monument Type MXS18932 World War II strongpoint, visible in 1941 northeast of Covehithe. (Monument)