Welcome to the web site on the Friends of Newtown Road Cemetery.

The Friends were set up in association with Newbury Town Council to help restore the cemetery to its former glory after it was closed in 2000 on health and safety grounds. In the subsequent years, the Friends have undertaken may tasks including assisting with nature surveys and providing information and pictures for display boards.

We are also undertaking a full memorial recording programme to ensure that the information on all the memorials is preserved on the web site where everyone can access it.

Our History Research Group is actively searching through old documents and certificates to try and find out as much as possible about every single person buried there.

If you wish to join the friends or have any information about people buried here, then we would be delighted to hear from you.

If you wish to visit the cemetery, it is open daily (except Christmas Day) between 10am and 3pm.


Dates for your Diary.

The dates listed below are special events being run by The Friends of Newtown Road Cemetery.
For more information, please go to the events page.

Event Date Time Location
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 19:30 - 21:00 St Francis de Sales Church, RG14 6NH


Aerial view of the cemetery

This is a zoomable image taken by the RAF in 1950. Note that the now demolished dissenter's chapel is still present in this picture. You can also see the temporary building used for St. John's Church following the bombing in 1943.

Reproduced here with kind permission from the copyright holder © English Heritage. NMR RAF Photography


Where is the Cemetery?

You can use the map below to locate the cemetery in relation to the A339 that runs through the centre of Newbury.

The Cemetery is the long vertical space in the centre of the map between Newtown Road and Old Newtown Road.

A Postcode on Newtown Road to get you there using your Sat-Nav is RG14 7BT.


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We remember them...

On this day the following people were buried in Newtown Road Cemetery.
An asterisk (*) by the date means that the date of death has been used as we do not have a precise date of burial.

Name Date of burial Age at death
(if known)
Abode (burials only)
William John BAILEY 12 September 1900 51
Newbury
Frances Beatrice BRADFIELD 12 September 1872 8
Kingsclere
William John BUTLER 12 September 1870 2 months
Newbury
Rose Ethel DEACON 12 September 1901 14 Linwood Cottage, Railway Road,
Newbury
Annie GARLICK 12 September 1874 20
Hungerford
John Richard GODDARD 12 September 1924 51 Pelberwyn, Cheap Street
Newbury
Martha HARRISON 12 September 1874 33
Newbury
unnamed HUNT 12 September 1900 0
Charles IVE 12 September 1870 5 days
Newbury
Sarah Jane KIRKLAND 12 September 1917 44 9 Eva Terrace
Newbury
Infant son of Joseph LEWIS 12 September 1878 11 days
Speenhamland
Ann  MASSOM 12 September 1904 82 Northcroft Lane
Newbury
Mary MATHER 12 September 1939 78 Comberton, Bradford Road
Wollaston
unnamed ROLFE 12 September 1880 0
Peggy Eileen Nora SCULL 12 September 1925 5 months 9 Jubilee Road
Newbury
Edward George THORNE 12 September 1882 71
Newbury
William James Coxed WALTERS 12 September 1874 39
Newbury



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