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)
Ann Ethel BRAIN 08 February 1929 48 1 Highfield Avenue
Newbury
Ernest Stanley COLLINS 08 February 1912 8 Months 11 Jack Street,
Newbury.
Alice Mary COOK 08 February 1952 86 80 Greenham Road, Newbury
Catherine CULLEY 08 February 1875 62
Newbury
Esther Elizabeth DAY 08 February 1949 91 11 Jubilee Road
Newbury
Jane HARDING 08 February 1872 80
Newbury
Neville HARRISON 08 February 1904 77 Union Workhouse
Newbury
George JAMES 08 February 1883 60
Newbury
Eliza LEACH 08 February 1905 61 Union Workhouse
Newbury
Martha  PORTSMORE 08 February 1873 62
Newbury
Mark  POVEY 08 February 1910 84 5 Rose Cottages, Railway Road,
Newbury
Arthur Wellington PURDUE 08 February 1918 65 Fishers Farm, Long Lane
Newbury
Benjamin SARGANT 08 February 1912 90 Craven Road,
Newbury.
Charles SELLWOOD 08 February 1940 93 214 Andover Road
Newbury
William SHEPHERD 08 February 1910 82 Union Infirmary
Newbury
Anne Maria STAPLES 08 February 1928 72 18 Andover Road
Newbury
Mary SWEETINBURGH 08 February 1905 88 259 Oxford Road,
Reading
Charles THATCHER 08 February 1871 30
Newbury
Charles TIDBURY 08 February 1869 8 weeks Newbury Union Workhouse
Newbury
Elizabeth Louise TUCKER 08 February 1949 82 6 Enborne Place
Newbury
Ester WINKWORTH 08 February 1878 72
Newbury



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