Newent
Newent is a little market community as well as 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 least Roman times and appears initially in the historic document in the Domesday Book. It was a Medieval market and reasonable town. Newent is on the northern side of the Forest of Dean, and within the Forest of Dean District. It is southeast of the River Wye, which was connected, via Newent, to Gloucester in the late 18th century by the Herefordshire and also Gloucestershire Canal, which was 34 miles (55 km) long.