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Pillbox, with decaying exterior brick shuttering, adjacent to cattle grid on unclassified road, a few feet from River Kennet.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/03/22)
Type 22 pillbox N of canal on E side of N/S road. Field of fire S towards Dunmill Lock Bridge. Brick-shuttered (exterior), wood-shuttered (interior). Concrete blast wall. Brickwork eroded.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/08/21)
Type 22 brick-shuttered pillbox. Shuttering formed of 'end-on' bricks. Doorway on N side. Faces S over bridges. Large interior concrete anti-ricochet wall. Small stepped embrasures set into square, pre-cast concrete surrounds. Badly overgrown. Access, including interior, possible.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/09/03)
Hexagonal pillbox plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1968)
Hexagonal pillbox plotted from air photograph. Faces E.
(Source: Air Photograph 1941/06/11)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
      

      

        Location
        At Denford Mill Gate, N of Kennet and Avon Canal near Dunmill Lock Bridge.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Hungerford, Berkshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SU 35175 68264
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1968)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Flooding (Medium Term) 
Detail: Possible flooding from river in extreme conditions.

            Type: Deterioration (Medium Term) 
Detail: The brick shuttering is eroding.

            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: Pillbox is very overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Cole, Chris
      

      

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

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) - S0006478
         

     (3) - exterior views (slide and 2 prints).  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Pillboxes (2) a short distance away at Dun Mill Lock: type 28a anti-tank gun emplacement to S (SU 351683).

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0006478

      

      

        Reference
        
             1999 Ironside's Line

             1941/06/11 210TU/BR352 (fr.3)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1999/03/22 

            Field Visit, On 2003/09/03 

            Field Visit, On 2000/08/21 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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