Newent
Newent is a tiny market town and civil parish about 10.6 miles (17.1 km) northwest of Gloucester in Gloucestershire, England. Its population at the 2001 census was 5,073, enhancing to 5,207 at the 2011 census. The community's site has actually been resolved since at least Roman times and also shows up initially in the historic document in the Domesday Book. It was a Middle ages market and reasonable town. Newent gets on the north edge of the Forest of Dean, and 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 as well as Gloucestershire Canal, which was 34 miles (55 kilometres) long.