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.


In Remembrance
of
the Five Servicemen who died during
the Second World War in the service of
their country and are buried here
in Commonwealth War Graves.

1940
Corporal Alfred Charles Jessett
Royal Air Force

1941
Sapper Arthur George Crame
Royal Engineers

1942
Sergeant Air Gunner Arthur William Pryke
Royal Air Force

1943
Chief Baker John Alexander Burton
Merchant Navy

1945
2nd Class Naval Airman Stanley Clifford Rawlings
Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy

   


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)
James ADAMS 01 May 1901 70
Newbury
Emily  BISHOP 01 May 1908 54 The Berkshire Asylum
Cholsey
Mary Ann BOWDEN 01 May 1920 77 99 Newtown Road
Newbury
Laura BULPIT 01 May 1878 14 Months
Newbury
Joseph COCKELL 01 May 1940 64 Royal Berks Hospital
Reading
Elizabeth DEW 01 May 1901 81
Newbury
Emma EMMENS 01 May 1930 81 5 Hampton Road
Newbury
Albert Edwin FRANKLIN 01 May 1965 78 5, Wendan Road
Newbury
Jane HALL 01 May 1912 78 2 Clifton Villas, Jubilee Road,
Newbury
Archer John HALLS 01 May 1924 4 Newbury District Hospital
Newbury
Mary MESSENGER 01 May 1872 79
Newbury
William PAINE 01 May 1925 82 27 Craven Road
Newbury
Alfred SEXTON 01 May 1875 44
Newbury
Maud SHEPPARD 01 May 1906 22 Cromwell Place
Newbury
Hannah WAITE 01 May 1903 91
Woodcote
Louisa WATTS 01 May 1920 58 Sascelbye, St. Johns Road
Newbury
Gertrude Ada WELLS 01 May 1973 96 Park House Nursing Home,Park Road
Winchester
John WILSON 01 May 1905 70 Wash Common
Newbury



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