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)
Lucy Johanna BOLTON 24 April 1942 83 20 Andover Road
Newbury
Anne BUTLER 24 April 1970 86 "Sherwood Villa" The Folly
Newbury
Kate BUTLER 24 April 1937 69 5 Stroud Green
Newbury
James COOK 24 April 1874 4 months
Newbury
Lucy DANIELS 24 April 1883 33
Greenham
John Henry DIGWEED 24 April 1929 69 199 Caversham Road
Reading
William EDWARDS 24 April 1907 80 Elmhurst, Andover Road,
Newbury
David GEATER 24 April 1912 87 15 Church Almshouses,
Newbury.
Rose Harriett GLODIMAN 24 April 1940 71 27 Victory Road
Windsor
Emily HAINES 24 April 1871 12
Newbury
unnamed HAINES 24 April 1880 0
Thomas HUNT 24 April 1915 76 Workhouse Infirmary
Newbury
Elsie Lilly KIMBER 24 April 1954 65 Newbury District Hospital
James Crossley LEGG 24 April 1917 91 10 Raymonds Almshouses
Newbury
Ernest LIPSCOMBE 24 April 1876 5 months
Newbury
Simon LOVELL 24 April 1906 65 1 Charles Place
Newbury
Jane MARSHALL 24 April 1907 84 Wash Common
Newbury
David NEWPORT 24 April 1872 2
Newbury
Amelia Maud OCCOMORE 24 April 1902 1 The Workhouse
Newbury
Elizabeth OWEN 24 April 1941 90 63 Bartholomew Street
Newbury
Anna Maria PAINE 24 April 1935 77 18 Andover Road
Newbury
John PRIOR 24 April 1914 6 Months 3 St. John's Cottages, Greenham Road,
Jane SEWARD 24 April 1929 69 12 Howard Road
Newbury
Thomas TAPLIN 24 April 1907 46 3 Elm Villa's
Greenham
Unnamed TAYLOR 24 April 1909 0 Eauclaire Villa, Boundary Road
Newbury
Florence Eliza TERRY 24 April 1906 34 2 Hampton Villa's, Livingstone Road,
Newbury
Rachel WELLER 24 April 1876 49
Newbury
Eliza Fanny WHILEY 24 April 1918 55 Mansion House Street
Newbury
George WILLOUGHBY 24 April 1906 83 Union Workhouse
Newbury



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