WW2 Pillbox
WW2 Pillbox is a bunker in St Ives, West Cornwall, England. WW2 Pillbox is situated nearby to the beach Porth Kidney Sands, as well as near the church cemetery chapel.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Carbis Bay railway station and Lelant railway station.
Carbis Bay railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Carbis Bay railway station is on the St Ives Bay Line in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom and serves the village and beach of Carbis Bay, a community that only adopted this name after the arrival of the railway in 1877. Carbis Bay railway station is situated 3,600 feet west of WW2 Pillbox.
Lelant railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lelant railway station is on the waterfront of the Hayle estuary below the village of Lelant in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Lelant railway station is situated 1 mile southeast of WW2 Pillbox.
St Anta and All Saints
Church
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Anta and All Saints is a church, which is situated 3,000 feet west of WW2 Pillbox.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carbis Bay and Lelant.
Carbis Bay
Photo: Vdemedina, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Carbis Bay is a seaside resort and village in Cornwall, England. It lies 1 mile southeast of St Ives, on the western coast of St Ives Bay, on the Atlantic coast. The South West Coast Path passes above the beach.
Lelant
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.
Lelant or Uny Lelant is a village in the civil parish of St Ives in, west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the west side of the Hayle Estuary, about 2+1⁄2 miles southeast of St Ives and one mile west of Hayle.
The Towans
Hamlet
Towan is found in many placenames in Cornwall. However, The Towans usually refers to the three-mile stretch of coastal dunes which extends north-east from the estuary of the River Hayle to Gwithian beach with a midpoint near Upton.
WW2 Pillbox
- Type: Bunker
- Category: military installation
- Location: St Ives, West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.19456° or 50° 11′ 40″ northLongitude
-5.44873° or 5° 26′ 55″ westOpen location code
9C2P5HV2+RGOpenStreetMap ID
node 14070995485OpenStreetMap feature
military=bunker
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