It is a wide bay of flint shingle with a shallowly sloping foreshore, and was formerly guarded by slumping pillboxes.

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Once cloches, pillboxes and fedoras were ubiquitous.

FORBES

The remains of a network of pillboxes and gun emplacements can be found at various coastal locations around the country and a short trip across the English Channel will ensure you come face to face with the Nazi Atlantic Wall that was there to stop the Allied forces returning to mainland Europe, something it failed to achieve.

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