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.


Dates for your Diary.

The dates listed below are special events being run by The Friends of Newtown Road Cemetery.
For more information, please go to the events page.

Event Date Time Location
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 - Saturday, January 25, 2025 19:30 - 21:00 Newbury Town Hall


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)
Joseph ATKINS 20 January 1900 77
Newbury
Alice BARLOW 20 January 1925 67 214 Newtown Road
Newbury
Ellen BISHOP 20 January 1877 39
Newbury
Eliza DALTON 20 January 1921 80 99 Newtown Road
Newbury
George DELL 20 January 1926 80 5 Ashford Road
Swindon
Arthur ELLIOTT 20 January 1909 80 Old Raymond Almshouses
Alfred Thomas GARLAND 20 January 1931 67 119 Boundary Road
Newbury
Sarah GIBBS 20 January 1915 84 Old Newtown Road,
Sophie GREENWOOD 20 January 1931 82 214 Newtown Road
Newbury
Thomas Edward HELLIER 20 January 1911 4 4 Orts Road, Kings Road,
Kate Louisa JESSETT 20 January 1933 55 5 St. George's Avenue
Newbury
Naomi LLOYD 20 January 1875 80
Newbury
Jessie Louisa MARTIN 20 January 1936 75 53 St. John's Road
Newbury
Susan MILLARD 20 January 1915 64 56 Gloucester Road,
Newbury.
Mary Stephana NEATE 20 January 1900 13
Newbury
George Kenerrick Charles NORTH 20 January 1919 33 Newport Borough Asylum
Newport
George PRESTON 20 January 1928 74 1 Prospect Terrace, St. John's Road
Newbury
Percy Laurie RUSSELL 20 January 1917 38 6 Carnarvon Terrace,
Mary Ann TALMAGE 20 January 1911 70 4 St Mary's Almshouses,
Newbury
Emily TUGGY 20 January 1883 34
Newbury
Tom WATTS 20 January 1900 47
Newbury
Ellen WERNHAM 20 January 1877 80
Newbury
Albert Richard Tanner WETHERALL 20 January 1898 17
Newbury
Sarah WLIDER 20 January 1934 85 2 Raymond's Almshouses
Newbury



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