Newent
Newent is a little market community and civil parish about 10.6 miles (17.1 km) northwest of Gloucester in Gloucestershire, England. Its population at the 2001 census was 5,073, enhancing to 5,207 at the 2011 census. The town's site has been cleared up because a minimum of Roman times and also appears initially in the historical record in the Domesday Book. It was a Middle ages market and also fair town. Newent is on the north edge of the Forest of Dean, and within the Forest of Dean Area. It is southeast of the River Wye, which was linked, through Newent, to Gloucester in the late 18th century by the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal, which was 34 miles (55 km) long.