Newent is a tiny market community as well as civil parish regarding 10.6 miles (17.1 kilometres) northwest of Gloucester in Gloucestershire, England. Its population at the 2001 census was 5,073, enhancing to 5,207 at the 2011 census. The community's site has actually been settled since at least Roman times as well as shows up initially in the historical document in the Domesday Book. It was a Middle ages market and also fair town. Newent is on the northern side of the Forest of Dean, and also within the Forest of Dean Area. It is southeast of the River Wye, which was linked, using Newent, to Gloucester in the late 18th century by the Herefordshire as well as Gloucestershire Canal, which was 34 miles (55 km) long.