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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.

	In Remembrance of the Five Servicemen who died during the Second World War in the service of their country and are buried here in Commonwealth War Graves.
	1940 Corporal Alfred Charles Jessett Royal Air Force
	1941 Sapper Arthur George Crame Royal Engineers
	1942 Sergeant Air Gunner Arthur William Pryke Royal Air Force
	1943 Chief Baker John Alexander Burton Merchant Navy
	1945 2nd Class Naval Airman Stanley Clifford Rawlings Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy

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)
Cecil Henry BAILEY	13 May 1923	31	2 Falkland Terrace, Andover Road Newbury
Druscilla Jane BUTCHER	13 May 1903	69	2 Sunnybrook Terrace, Newbury
Joseph CLARK	13 May 1873	73	Newbury
Sarah DREWETT	13 May 1938	82	17 Gloucester Road Newbury
Mary Margaret Elliott EDWARDS	13 May 1923	19	Hedges, Andover Road Newbury
Ada HOPTON	13 May 1936	69	214 Newtown Road Newbury
Eliza Ann LAWRENCE	13 May 1882	11	Newbury
Henry MATHER	13 May 1925	72	3 Rockingham Road Newbury
Charles John MILES	13 May 1911	13	3 Prospect Place, St. John's Road, Newbury
Annie ROGERS	13 May 1927	71	111 Greenham Road Newbury
Edith Emma SALMON	13 May 1969	89	2, Lower Raymond Almshouses Newbury
Jane SALWAY	13 May 1922	76	Nescott, St. John's Road Newbury
Fanny Hawthorm SMITH	13 May 1921	66	Falkland Lodge Cottage, Andover Road Newbury
John SMITH	13 May 1913	71	Old Newtown Road, Newbury.
John Edward WHEELER	13 May 1901	0
Thomas WHITEMAN	13 May 1911	74	6 Northbrook Street, Newbury.