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)
Arthur ATKINS 07 July 1883 4
Newbury
Cecil Stanley BARRINGTON 07 July 1943 45 36 St George's avenue
Newbury
Sarah BOURNE 07 July 1871 78
Newbury
Florence Mary CLINCH 07 July 1966 76 27A, Priory Road
Newbury
Hannah COCKAYNE 07 July 1874 74
London
Sarah Ann DODSON 07 July 1883 67
Newbury
Albert DOWNS 07 July 1870 18
Newbury
unnamed GILBERT 07 July 1902 0
Catherine Mary ISLES 07 July 1911 2 Falkland Villa, Andover Road,
Newbury.
Ellen KING 07 July 1869 23 Death at Newbury Union Workhouse, 03 July 1869
Newbury
Thomas Henry LOMAS 07 July 1922 82 Quirs, Enbourne Road
Newbury
unnamed PARKER 07 July 1883 0
Alice SOPER 07 July 1879 18
Newbury
William TAYLOR 07 July 1923 82 11 Kimber's Almshouses
Newbury
Amelia TUCKER 07 July 1909 39 12 Adey's Buildings,
Newbury
Phillis Marjorie WEBB 07 July 1933 39 Royal Infirmary
Leicester



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