page_title: Newent
section_title: Survivals
hierarchical_section_title: Newent / History / Survivals
caption_attribution_description: English: Church Street, Newent Showing one of the many half-timbered buildings and the George Hotel, an old coaching house and posting inn dating back to the mid seventeenth century. Recent alterations have unearthed a treasure trove of golden spade guineas beneath the hearth.
context_page_description: Newent is a market town and civil parish about 10½ miles north-west of Gloucester, England. Its population of 5,073 at the 2001 census increased to 5,207 by 2011. A 2018 estimate put the population at 5050. Once a medieval market and fair town, its site had been settled at least since Roman times. It appeared first in the historical record in the 1086 Domesday Book.
context_section_description: Newent has many historical buildings, including a stilted Market House and a number of other black-and-white, half-timbered buildings typical of  Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. Behind Church Street, a former museum of Victorian life called the Shambles was home to a replica 19th-century street that is now occupied by real traders.
  More than 50 buildings and monuments in the town centre are listed by Historic England, including most of those in Church Street. They also include Devonia in High Street, a Grade II-listed house dating from the Georgian period. The early 18th-century Court House situated in a small park beside the parish church, occupies the site of the ancient priory and is reputed to contain the foundations of the former building. The house contains historic features that include a fine Rococo plaster ceiling and several complete panelled rooms. The building was restored by R. V. Morris, Chairman of Gloucester Civic Trust.
caption: Church Street, Newent
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