Tag: Coasts and islands

• Britain’s last line of defence: the pillboxes and stop lines of 1940

  

  I mapped 14,690 wartime defences recorded by Defence of Britain volunteers. The planned German landing beaches had 2.3 times the average density of defence, and 71% of sites with a known condition were still standing.

  Tristan Hotham

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  Britain, coast and sea, Coasts and islands, Heritage, history, Military history, Second World War, Twentieth century, UK, war