This World war 11 pill box one of over 5,000 built in the early 1940s. It formed part of the inland GHQ Defence- line. This was last of a number of Defence lines protecting the capital and key industrial areas. This line extended from the west coast near Bristol over to the Kent Coast near Chatham . Pill Box positions took Advantage of natural and man made obstacles such as rivers and canals and embankments and housed machine gun and Anti- tank weapons