Newbury's position is 51 deg 24' North, 1 deg 19' West. National grid reference SA470670.
- Newbury Tourist information Centre is on +44 1635 30267. It is situated in an attractive old granary on Newbury's Wharf.
Newbury's local paper is The Newbury Weekly News.
The most ugly building in Newbury by public acclaim is the telephone exchange.
Newbury is twinned with Braunfels (Germany), Bagnols-sur-Ceze (France) and Eeklo (Belgium). Web-site: www.newburytwintown.org.uk.
Newbury Museum has an exhibition of Civil War costumes, traditional craft and industry, Kennet and Avon canal, local and natural history and archaeology. For details phone +44 1635 30511.
- Greenham Common, the decommissioned American Cruise missile site, is on the south side of Newbury. It used to have the longest runway in the UK before it was broken up and used in the construction of the Newbury Bypass. Following the departure of the women peace protesters at the end of the Cold War, a peace-garden was created at the main entrance.
Shaw House, where King Charles I stayed during the second battle of Newbury in 1644, was damaged by the American Army during the Second World War, further damaged by its use as a school, but has now been restored as an arts and conference centre.
The Rev. and Honourable John Horatio Nelson was a great-nephew of the Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Nelson and was vicar of Shaw-cum-Donnington Church when it was rebuilt in 1842.
The Rev. James Roe was vicar of Newbury's parish church from 1797 until 1838. His son John Septimus Roe went to Australia in 1829 as the first surveyor-general of Western Australia. In 1840 he founded Sandalford, the oldest vineyard in the state and still going.
John West in 1720 made a bequest to Christ's Hospital and as a result his "kin" can get help to attend the school. Many Newbury residents have written pedigrees to make sure they can prove these entitlements.
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