Newent
Newent is a small 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, increasing to 5,207 at the 2011 census. The town's site has been settled because at least Roman times and also shows up first in the historic document in the Domesday Book. It was a Middle ages market and also fair town. Newent gets on the northern edge of the Forest of Dean, and also 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 km) long.