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)
Alfred Ernest ATKINS 19 July 1878 2
Newbury
Lilian Edith BREAD 19 July 1913 3 Months 13 Jack Street,
Newbury.
Florence CLARKE 19 July 1935 84 Ridler Cottage, Greenham Common
Newbury
Annie CLINKER 19 July 1915 63 1 Elizabeth Terrace,
Newbury.
Martha GRAY 19 July 1884 94
Peckham
Mary MOSS 19 July 1911 62 3 Wellington Terrace
Newbury
Henry Thomas PARR 19 July 1922 44 Dunedin, Bath Road
Reading
Beryl Hilda SAVAGE 19 July 1921 18 Newbury District Hospital
Newbury
William Henry SMITH 19 July 1884 16
Newbury
Caleb TURNER 19 July 1879 27
Newbury
Hetty Katherine Rayer WEBB 19 July 1934 58 Ingleside, St. John's Road
Newbury
Henry Wilson WESTACOTT 19 July 1918 31 17 Gloucester Road
Newbury



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