Newent is a little market town and also civil parish about 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 actually been cleared up because at the very least Roman times as well as shows up initially in the historical record in the Domesday Book. It was a Medieval market as well as fair community. Newent gets 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 linked, via Newent, to Gloucester in the late 18th century by the Herefordshire and also Gloucestershire Canal, which was 34 miles (55 km) long.