Newent
Newent is a small market community and civil parish regarding 10.6 miles (17.1 km) northwest of Gloucester in Gloucestershire, England. Its population at the 2001 census was 5,073, boosting to 5,207 at the 2011 census. The community's site has actually been worked out because a minimum of Roman times and also shows up first in the historic document in the Domesday Book. It was a Middle ages market and fair town. Newent gets on the northern edge of the Forest of Dean, and within the Forest of Dean Area. It is southeast of the River Wye, which was connected, via Newent, to Gloucester in the late 18th century by the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal, which was 34 miles (55 kilometres) long.