{"id":5296,"date":"2015-03-08T16:41:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T16:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2025-10-06T13:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:41:16","slug":"hungerford-common-anti-tank-defences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/hungerford-common-anti-tank-defences\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungerford Common Anti-Tank Defences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dunmill Lock, Hungerford Common, Berkshire<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

 Anti-Tank Defences On Hungerford Common<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Situated between the railway line and the Kennet and Avon Canal at Hungerford Common in Berkshire are two FW3\/28 Anti-Tank Pillboxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dunmill Lock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Both are positioned back to back on an embankment covering the canal, road and railway from a vantage point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dunmill Lock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The twin Type 28 close to the railway bridge is well known and appears in Henry Wills Pillboxes with a two pounder gun and crew set up inside for a BBC television documentary in 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Dunmill<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since I last visited the area, all of the defences have had the entrances and main embrasures sealed with wire grilles now making them inaccessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A metal inscribed information board has also been placed close to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Dunmill<\/a>
Dunmill Lock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This gives some welcome and detailed information on the history behind the WW2 defence line and Pillboxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Dunmill<\/a>
Dunmill Lock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A short distance down the road and across the canal bridge at Dunmill Lock is a shell-proof FW3\/22. This also has an information board and is sealed like the two previous boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dunmill Lock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All of these defences have brick shuttering which is now in poor condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Tim Denton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dunmill Lock, Hungerford Common, Berkshire  Anti-Tank Defences On Hungerford Common Situated between the railway line and the Kennet and Avon Canal at Hungerford Common in Berkshire are two FW3\/28 Anti-Tank Pillboxes. Both are positioned back to back on an embankment covering the canal, road and railway from a vantage point. The twin Type 28 close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,913],"tags":[77,78,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-5296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berkshire","8":"category-type-28","9":"tag-anti-tank","10":"tag-defences","11":"tag-hungerford","12":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}