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)
Walter ALLEN 08 October 1869 1
Newbury
William BAKER 08 October 1906 83 Stanley Road
Newbury
Frederick Richard  FOWLER 08 October 1878 14 months
Newbury
Emily GIBBS 08 October 1902 66 York Road
Newbury
Anna Maria JACKSON 08 October 1921 70 114 Gloucester Road
Newbury
William JACKSON 08 October 1872 77
Newbury
Ada JORDAN 08 October 1955 76 20 Chesterfield Road, Newbury
John MILLS 08 October 1880 74 Donnington Road
Evelyn Emily MORTON 08 October 1966 81 30, Priory Road
Newbury
Stephen PEARCE 08 October 1924 72 99 Newtown Road
Newbury
Eleanor PILBROW 08 October 1912 77 Pembroke Road,
Newbury.
James TOTTLE 08 October 1880 34
Newbury
Kate VICKERS 08 October 1921 30 Newbury District Hospital
Newbury
Mary WALKER 08 October 1869 41
Newbury
Ernest Austin Forster WARD 08 October 1868 1
Newbury
Amelia WELLS 08 October 1872 59
Newbury



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