Newent
Newent is a small market town as well as civil parish regarding 10.6 miles (17.1 km) northwest of Gloucester in Gloucestershire, England. Its population at the 2001 census was 5,073, raising to 5,207 at the 2011 census. The town's site has been worked out since at least Roman times as well as shows up initially in the historical record in the Domesday Book. It was a Middle ages market and reasonable town. Newent gets on the north edge of the Forest of Dean, as well as within the Forest of Dean Area. It is southeast of the River Wye, which was linked, by means of Newent, to Gloucester in the late 18th century by the Herefordshire as well as Gloucestershire Canal, which was 34 miles (55 km) long.