Newent
Newent is a tiny market town and civil parish about 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 The town's site has been worked out since at least Roman times and appears first in the historical document in the Domesday Book. It was a Medieval market as well as fair community. Newent is on the north side of the Forest of Dean, and within the Forest of Dean District. It is southeast of the River Wye, which was connected, using Newent, to Gloucester in the late 18th century by the Herefordshire and also Gloucestershire Canal, which was 34 miles (55 kilometres) long.