WW2 Pillbox

WW2 Pillbox is a bunker in Hayle, West Cornwall, England. WW2 Pillbox is situated nearby to the motorhome stopover Riviere Sands, as well as near the garden Cliff Bungalows.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Felicitas and St Piala’s Church, Phillack and Hayle railway station.

St Felicitas and St Piala’s Church, Phillack

Church

Photo: Ivan Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Felicitas and St Piala’s Church, Phillack is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro in Phillack, Cornwall, England, UK. St Felicitas and St Piala’s Church, Phillack is situated 3,200 feet southeast of WW2 Pillbox.

Hayle railway station

Railway station

Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hayle railway station serves the small town of Hayle, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is on the Cornish Main Line 7 miles north-east of Penzance, 319 miles 31 chains from the zero point at London Paddington measured via Box and Plymouth Millbay. Hayle railway station is situated 1 mile south of WW2 Pillbox.

St Uny’s Church, Lelant

Church

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

St Uny Church, Lelant, is the Church of England parish church of Lelant, Cornwall, England. It is dedicated to Saint Uny who is also the patron saint of Redruth. It is a Grade I listed building. St Uny’s Church, Lelant is situated 1 mile southwest of WW2 Pillbox.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include The Towans and Phillack.

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.

Phillack

Village

Photo: Ivan Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Phillack is a village in the parish of Hayle, in west Cornwall, England. It is about one mile northeast of Hayle and half-a-mile inland from St Ives Bay on Cornwall's Atlantic Ocean coast.

Copperhouse

Suburb

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Copperhouse is an eastern suburb of Hayle in west Cornwall, England. It grew up around the Copperhouse Foundry, which was run by Sandys, Carne and Vivian.

WW2 Pillbox

Type: Bunker
Categories: building and military installation
Location: Hayle, West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.20052° or 50° 12′ 2″ north

Longitude

-5.42399° or 5° 25′ 26″ west

Open location code

9C2P6H2G+6C

OpenStreetMap ID

way 578588146

OpenStreetMap feature

building=bunker

OpenStreetMap feature

military=bunker

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