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)
Annie Louisa BECKETT 20 June 1901 28 3 Netherton Terrace
Newbury
Henry James Alma DOLTON 20 June 1904 50 Union Workhouse
Newbury
Mary Ann DUCK 20 June 1879 69
Newbury
Paul GILDERSLEVE 20 June 1950 36 hours Freshfields Was Common
Newbury
Clara GREEN 20 June 1883 31
Greenham
Martha HIBBERT 20 June 1879 78
Newbury
William INNES 20 June 1939 80 44 Newtown Road
Newbury
Maria KEENS 20 June 1923 84 30 Marsh Street (Jack Street)
Newbury
Richard PALMER 20 June 1908 54 Union Workhouse
Newbury
Jane PARSLOE 20 June 1918 64 Axbridge, Howard Road
Newbury
Stephen ROSIER 20 June 1921 54 8 Denmark Road
Newbury
William SMITH 20 June 1934 69 214 Newtown Road
Newbury
Hannah Elizabeth THOMAS 20 June 1876 36
Newbury
Solomon TUCK 20 June 1870 18 months
Newbury
Jane WILLIS 20 June 1918 72 1 Railway Terrace
Newbury



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