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.



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Samhain
A Halloween Cellebration

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)
Frank  BALDWIN 02 December 1909 5 District Hospital
Newbury
George BALL 02 December 1918 79 St. Mary's Almhouses
Newbury
Leonora BARSON 02 December 1927 90 60 Newtown Road
Newbury
Eva Elizabeth CHIVERS 02 December 1920 66 63 Cheap Street
Newbury
William COLBOURNE 02 December 1910 72 Rockingham Road
Newbury
George COUSENS 02 December 1880 80
Newbury
Elizabeth COXETER 02 December 1876 100
Newbury
Rev. Charles DAVIS 02 December 1943 78 90 Carberry avenue
Bournmouth
Herbert John FINN 02 December 1922 80 50 Bartholomew Street
Newbury
Richard FOWLER 02 December 1870 52
Newbury
Eva Elizabeth GIBBS 02 December 1918 23 3 Prospect Place, St. John's Road
Newbury
Charlotte Emma HALL 02 December 1936 68 16 Blenheim Road
Newbury
Thomas HAMBLIN 02 December 1874 78
Newbury
Roland HUTCHINS 02 December 1909 7 Months 1 West Field Terrace,
Newbury
Maud Mary JACKSON 02 December 1960 80 114 Gloucester Road, Newbury
John  JAMES 02 December 1873 74
Newbury
Monica Kate Dopson LAIDLER 02 December 1932 15 months 67 Queen's Road
Newbury
Daphne Martha LEWIS 02 December 1942 21 Stoke Park Colony
Stoke Gifford
Mary Ann PLUMMER 02 December 1918 70 Newbury Infirmary
Newbury
Caroline PULLEN 02 December 1902 78 Milford Cottage, Westfields
Newbury
Ellen RAWLINGS 02 December 1936 77 11 Shrewsbury Terrace
Newbury
William George SALMON 02 December 1943 69 Donnington almshouses
Donnington
James SAUNDERS 02 December 1902 86 Wentworth House, Stroud Green,
Newbury
Edward SMITH 02 December 1878 3
Newbury
William STRANGE 02 December 1872 88
Newbury
Elizabeth STRONG 02 December 1870 42
Newbury
Mary Jane TAYLOR 02 December 1910 74 St Mary's Almshouses
Newbury
Mary Maria TUCKER 02 December 1876 14 days
Newbury
Alice Mary TURNER 02 December 1946 55 3 Edwards Cottages
Newbury
Francis Flower WALLS 02 December 1882 25 days West Mills
Thomas WARD 02 December 1882 63
Newbury
Margaret Giffard WELLS 02 December 1933 48 3 Highfield Avenue
Newbury
Harry WILDER 02 December 1909 51 Infirmary
Newbury



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