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6pdr gunpit.
(Source: Book 1999)


      

        Type of site
        GUN EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        Bridge Street on the A338 road, Hungerford

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Hungerford, Berkshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SU 338 687
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Extant but condition unknown

      

      

        Materials
        
            Unknown
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Alexander, Colin (Pillbox Study Group)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line: Blue - Section of GHQ Stop Line running from near Melksham to Reading. 

 
 Hungerford nodal point - The defences of Hungerford on the GHQ Blue Line. The defences were developed as a nodal point because Hungerford was considered an important centre of regional road communications (July 1940). During 1941 it was reclassified as a Category C anti-tank island. 

        		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0008814

      

      

        Reference
        
             1999 Ironside's Line

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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