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)
Emily ALLEN 21 December 1920 80 Chesterfield Road
Newbury
Maria ALLEN 21 December 1908 75 3 Derby Cottages, Kings Road,
Newbury
Maud BEAUCHAMP 21 December 1880 6 months
Newbury
Thomas BRAZIER 21 December 1940 81 2 Arthur Road
Newbury
Albert CLARK 21 December 1921 54 99 Newtown Road
Newbury
Ellen Malvina CLEVERLEY 21 December 1928 72 43 Park Lane
Newbury
Harry CLINCH 21 December 1881 7 months
Newbury
John DAY 21 December 1881 76
Newbury
Walter Brice GREGORY 21 December 1903 3 months 6 New Square
Newbury
Esther JONES 21 December 1869 45
Newbury
Hannah KIMBER 21 December 1900 32
Newbury
William KING 21 December 1874 14
Newbury
Mary KNIGHT 21 December 1917 78 25 Donnington Square
Newbury
Edward MILLER 21 December 1880 69
Newbury
Hannah NASH 21 December 1874 82
Newbury
John PAYNE 21 December 1881 76
Newbury
John QUELCH 21 December 1929 69 83 Kings Road
Newbury
Ann Maria ROBERTS 21 December 1868 12 days
Newbury
Harry SMITH 21 December 1883 6 weeks
Newbury
James SMITH 21 December 1912 68 Queens Road,
Newbury.
Sarah Annie STEPTOE 21 December 1877 18 months
Newbury
George WESTCOMBE 21 December 1917 69 16 Beaumont Street
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