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This Type 25 beach defence pillbox lies on the beach at Fleet, Dorset, and faces south-west out over the Fleet Lagoon and Chesil Beach .  Corrugated iron was used for it's shuttering.

[Map ref. SY 63764 79061]

From the west, the structure is tilting forward due to subsidence.

The structure's low, small, entrance.

 

                                                                                 

 

 

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