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)
Mary Ann BARTHOLOMEW 07 October 1942 84 10 York Road
Newbury
Emily Kate BOWLEY 07 October 1944 70 41 Russell road
Newbury
Elizabeth Maud Perry BURTON 07 October 1936 56 Bartholomew Street
Newbury
Benjamin FREEMAN 07 October 1936 84 18 Howard Road
Newbury
Elizabeth GEATER 07 October 1911 83 12 Church Almshouses,
Newbury.
Mary GRIFFIN 07 October 1915 76 2 Westfield Gate,
Newbury.
Mary HICKS 07 October 1904 16 District Hospital
Newbury
John Richard ILSLEY 07 October 1921 80 9 Church Almshouses
Newbury
Rachel KEEP 07 October 1870 37
Newbury
Elizabeth Jane PEARCE 07 October 1868 3
Newbury
Annie Charlotte PRESTOE 07 October 1949 83 11 St Johns Road
Newbury
Florence Annie ROBERTS 07 October 1932 54 19 Priory Road
Newbury
Sarah SCRIVEN 07 October 1908 80 GL..... Road
Newbury
William SIMMONDS 07 October 1901 2 months Railway Road
Newbury
Samuel John SMITH 07 October 1911 60 Craven Road,
Newbury.
Jane SNOW 07 October 1876 73
Newbury
Elizabeth TRINDER 07 October 1903 35 1 East View Villa's, York Road
Newbury
Louisa Charlotte WELLOCK 07 October 1933 75 5 Kimber's Almshouses
Newbury



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