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
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 19:30 - 21:00 St Francis de Sales Church, RG14 6NH


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)
Augustus BARRETT 09 October 1868 29
Newbury
Ernest Edward BUMSTEAD 09 October 1906 13 Days Union Workhouse
Newbury
Frederick Oliver COX 09 October 1938 78 130 Kings Road
Newbury
Fred Herbert DRAPER 09 October 1869 4
Newbury
Mary GIBBS 09 October 1919 70 1 Bartholomew Almshouses
Newbury
Kate GODDARD 09 October 1876 28
Newbury
George HODGES 09 October 1902 42 Hampton Road
Newbury
Alfred HOSIER 09 October 1900 59
Newbury
Ellen KNIGHT 09 October 1874 36
Newbury
Raymond Victor LOVERIDGE 09 October 1905 8 Weeks 1 Pembrook Road
Newbury
William LOVERIDGE 09 October 1869 4
Newbury
Peter NEW 09 October 1901 39 Gosport Villa, Kings Road,
Newbury
John PECK 09 October 1879 78
John PREW 09 October 1928 77 214 Newtown Road
Newbury
Rosa Kate ROWLANDS 09 October 1953 76 57 St. John's Road, Newbury
William TURNER 09 October 1905 51 Hampton Road
Eric Ernest WALTERS 09 October 1906 1 Month 3 Park Terrace
Newbury
Elizabeth Brooks WEBB 09 October 1944 83 Stanmore, Donnington Square
Newbury



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