Friends of Newport & Carisbrooke Cemeteries.

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Carisbrooke Cemetery

The aim of the volunteers of the Friends of Newport & Carisbrooke Cemeteries is to clear overgrowth from grave markers and document them together with unmarked burials at Cemeteries in the modern civil parish of Newport, Isle of Wight - the cemeteries covered are Newport, St Paul's (old and current) and Carisbrooke (Mount Joy) Cemeteries (plus the old churchyards at St Mary's Carisbrooke and St Paul's church Barton).

The online database includes details of those buried here before 2010 and, for a large number of plots, a picture of any memorial, its inscriptions and details of the lives etc. of those buried here. Plot maps are included to help visitors find any particular burial plot.

Carisbrooke Cemetery viewed by drone - posted by Darren Somerville on our Facebook page.

Clearing sessions are arranged on an ad-hoc basis, to be kept informed just complete an 'Express an interest form'.

If you would like to contribute to the group, but don't wish, or can't, help with the clearance of vegetation; let us know and we may have another way you can help - you don't need to live locally, transcribing newspaper reports etc. can be carried out wherever you live.



Please Note:

  • There's no water supply available at the high roadway at Carisbrooke Cemetery - water is available near the Chapel. When visiting it's probably best to bring your own water, or at least, something to carry water in.
  • At Newport Cemetery, the water supply is just inside the entrance from Fairlee Road.

Our Newsletter number 30 (June 2025) is now available in our Newsletter archive. If you would like to be sent future issues via e-mail, just send us a message asking us to add you to the distribution.

There's more than just clearing vegetation, so if you are interested in becoming involved, let us know you skills/interests using the 'Express an interest form'.

Work is progressing on the website; grave position maps have now been added for all the cemeteries. Also more details and pictures are also being added to individual records.