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.



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)
Annie BAKER 30 July 1910 54 District Hospital
Newbury
William BUXEY 30 July 1938 88 214 Newtown Road
Newbury
Rhoda COOK 30 July 1946 82 26 Market Place
Newbury
Kathleen Daisy Vera ETWELL 30 July 1912 6 Months 8 Northbrook Place,
Newbury.
John HOPSON 30 July 1907 83 Westwood Lodge
Newbury
Harry HOPTON 30 July 1940 75 68 Newtown Road
Newbury
Joseph LARCOW 30 July 1909 72 Union Workhouse
Newbury
Sarah LEADER 30 July 1914 67 Playlatt
Theale
Frank MAY 30 July 1870 3
Newbury
Julia NORTHWAY 30 July 1870 8 months
Newbury
unnamed TURLAND 30 July 1906 0
unnamed 2 TURLAND 30 July 1906 0
Arthur George VOKINS 30 July 1910 2 3 Arthur Road
Newbury
Mary Louisa WILLES 30 July 1924 62 Sea Road
Bexhill



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