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<\/a>Both are positioned back to back on an embankment covering the canal, road and railway from a vantage point.<\/p>\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 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 This gives some welcome and detailed information on the history behind the WW2 defence line and Pillboxes.<\/p>\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 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":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berkshire","category-type-28","tag-anti-tank","tag-defences","tag-hungerford","czr-hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/a><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>