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)
Alice ALLEN 11 July 1922 39 99 Newtown Road
Newbury
Isobel Molyneux CARTER 11 July 1963 90 2, Oak View, Whitchurch
Tavistock
Clarissa CHESHIRE 11 July 1914 53 District Hospital,
Newbury.
Edward FIDLER 11 July 1877 72
Newbury
Eliza Ann FREEMAN 11 July 1932 89 18 Enbourne Road
Newbury
Bessie GRIFFIN 11 July 1949 83 Sandleford Hospital
Newbury
Nora May HAYES 11 July 1912 15 Greenham Road
Newbury
David HILL 11 July 1881 73
Newbury
Alice Mary HOBBS 11 July 1904 40 1 Rydal Villa's, Queens Road,
Newbury
Ann KIRBY 11 July 1918 75 1 Clifton Cottages, Jubilee Road
Newbury
Hannah LAMBOURNE 11 July 1901 76 Union Workhouse
Newbury
Francis POCOCK 11 July 1922 75 7 Winchcombe Road
Newbury
James SIMS 11 July 1877 51
Newbury
Malcolm WATSON 11 July 1932 88 214 Newtown Road
Newbury
Hannah WILDER 11 July 1942 80 5 Market Street
Newbury



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