Pillbox

Pillbox is a bunker in Moray, Scotland. Pillbox is situated near Loch Spynie, as well as near the village Urquhart.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Grant Park and Loch Spynie.

Grant Park

Sports venue

Lossiemouth Football Club are a senior football club from Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. They play in the Highland League. Founded in 1945, they were admitted to the Highland League for season 1946-47 and have played in this league since that point. Grant Park is situated 2 miles northwest of Pillbox.

Loch Spynie

Loch Spynie is a small loch located between the towns of Elgin and Lossiemouth in Moray, Scotland. Close to Spynie Palace, the ancient home of the bishops of Moray, it is an important wildlife habitat which is protected as a Ramsar Site. Loch Spynie is situated 2 miles southwest of Pillbox.

Lossiemouth High School

School

Lossiemouth High School is a secondary school in the coastal town of Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. The school's catchment area includes the nearby villages of Burghead, Hopeman, Cummingston and Duffus. Lossiemouth High School is situated 2 miles northwest of Pillbox.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lossiemouth and Urquhart.

Lossiemouth

Photo: Billreid, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lossiemouth is a village on the coast of Moray in North East Scotland, with a population in 2016 of 7870. It developed as a fishing port in the 18th and 19th centuries, but the harbour is small and that industry has gone.

Urquhart

Village

Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Urquhart is a small village in Moray, Scotland. It is approximately 5 miles east of Elgin, and one mile NE of the larger village of Lhanbryde. It is just over 1 mile north of the main A96 road connecting Elgin and Keith, and about 2 miles south of the Moray Firth coast. Urquhart is situated 4 miles southeast of Pillbox.

Elgin

Photo: Billreid, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Elgin is the county town of Moray in northeast Scotland, best known for its ruined cathedral which made it a "city". Together with nearby Lossiemouth it's the service town for two nearby Royal Air Force bases, with a population in 2022 of 24,600.

Pillbox

Type: Bunker
Categories: building and military installation
Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.69958° or 57° 41′ 59″ north

Longitude

-3.24504° or 3° 14′ 42″ west

Open location code

9C9RMQX3+RX

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1493661993

OpenStreetMap feature

building=bunker

OpenStreetMap feature

military=bunker

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Highlights: Caysbriggs Quarry and Lossiemouth Cemetery.

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