Newent is a little market community and also civil parish concerning 10.6 miles (17.1 kilometres) 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 actually been settled since at the very least Roman times and also appears initially in the historical record in the Domesday Book. It was a Medieval market as well as fair town. Newent is 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, via Newent, to Gloucester in the late 18th century by the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal, which was 34 miles (55 km) long.