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)
Elizabeth Mary ASHDOWN 10 July 1901 40 Northbrook Street
Newbury
Frederick CANNING 10 July 1909 21 2 Northcroft Terrace
Newbury
Ernest COOLEY 10 July 1905 29 Union Workhouse
Newbury
Maud Emiline DREWETT 10 July 1928 46 97 Gloucester Road
Newbury
Alfred DUCK 10 July 1877 37
Speen
Ann DUCK 10 July 1876 34
Newbury
Frank Carly FIDLER 10 July 1878 6 months
Greenham
John FLINT 10 July 1920 77 9 Donnington Square
Newbury
Lilian Ruby GERRED 10 July 1923 19 Kingsbridge Road
Newbury
Maria GODDARD 10 July 1922 81 99 Newtown Road
Newbury
William HARFIELD 10 July 1874 56 London Road
Eva Mary HART 10 July 1954 66 85 Queens Road, Newbury
Reginald Haslam HAYDON 10 July 1961 79 52 Bartholomew Street, Newbury
Thomas Fearr HIGGS 10 July 1919 70 Church Street
Hungerford
Jane Sarson Cooper INGHAM 10 July 1906 62 4 Beaconsfield Terrace
Newbury
Caroline Hannah LUKE 10 July 1930 76 23 Jubilee Road
Newbury
Edwin Jack NEW 10 July 1909 1 Month West Street
Newbury
Walter PEARCE 10 July 1909 16 Months Old Newtown Road
Newbury
William PEARCE 10 July 1909 3 Months U....Courtn
Newbury
Sidney John RAWLINGS 10 July 1926 3 16 Russell Road
Newbury
Alfred John SELLWOOD 10 July 1878 48
Newbury
David TAYLOR 10 July 1920 74 Old Newtown Road
Newbury
George TOMBS 10 July 1869 23
Newbury
William George WALKER 10 July 1874 56
City
Henry WILLIS 10 July 1923 51 22 Jubilee Road
Newbury



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