Three Choirs Vineyard
📍 Just outside Newent
One of England's best-known vineyards, with wine tasting, a restaurant, a wine shop and lovely views over the vines.
Explore Newent
Discover local attractions, places of interest, scenic walks, heritage sites, parks, community facilities and hidden gems that make Newent such a wonderful place to live and visit.
⭐ Attractions
Popular places to visit and things to do in and around Newent.
Newent Lake and Park
📍 2 minutes' walk from the town centre
The town's green heart, where you can watch the ducks and carp, spot a heron if you're lucky, and let the children burn off energy. See Parks below.
The Shambles and The Secret Gallery
📍 Off Church Street
Tucked-away courtyard of independent craft shops and a café. The Secret Gallery showcases work by local artists and makers, with changing exhibitions and small creative classes upstairs.
Museum of Board Games
📍 The Shambles
A compact collection of more than 600 games, some over 200 years old. Expect to spot the games you played as a child.
Briery Hill Llamas
📍 Kempley
Head out across the fields with a llama on a lead, or spend time on the farm getting to know the herd. Tea and cake can be added.
Newent Golf Course
📍 Newent · 01531 820478
A 9-hole course run by a local family since the 1990s, suitable for golfers of every standard and playable most of the year. Always phone ahead to book a tee time; dogs aren't allowed.
Newent parkrun
📍 Every Saturday morning
Free weekly timed 5k open to everyone, whatever your pace — or come along to help out. The town's cafés are close by for a post-run breakfast.
Hillside Brewery
📍 Near Newent
Local craft brewery listed among the area's attractions by Newent Town Council.
Tom Roberts Adventure Centre (TRAC)
📍 Newent
Outdoor adventure and activity centre in Newent.
🥾 Walks and Rides
From easy town strolls to hill climbs and woodland trails, there's a route for every ability. Pick up maps and guidebooks at Seymour News on Church Street, and use the free one-hour parking at Lewall Street car park (GL18 1AR).
Newent town walk
📍 Town centre · about 30–40 minutes
Explore Newent. Spend 30–40 minutes looping round the main streets, the lake, the parish church and the Market Square.
Medieval buildings walk
📍 Town centre
Use the free printable map to track down the town's black-and-white timber buildings, some more than 500 years old.
Newent Lake and the Arboretum
📍 Lake 2 minutes away · Arboretum within 1 mile
Flat, gentle routes close to town. Wheelchair users can reach the water's edge at the lake, and the Arboretum has plenty of places to sit.
Newent to Oxenhall along the canal
📍 Just over 1 mile from town
Follow the old Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal to Oxenhall, where volunteers from the Canal Trust are restoring sections, locks and all.
May Hill
📍 3 miles from Newent · GL18 1JS
Climb to the clump of pine trees you can see from miles around and enjoy views over several counties. Several paths lead up, and it's a favourite spot at dawn and dusk. The National Trust car park is tiny and the slopes get muddy, so wear good boots.
Pauntley Church and Court
📍 3 miles from Newent
A rural walk to the quiet hamlet linked with Dick Whittington, London's most famous Lord Mayor.
Dymock Woods and the Poets' Paths
📍 4 miles from Newent
Woodland walks and paths following in the footsteps of the Dymock Poets, who lived and wrote here before the First World War.
Kempley Woods and the Daffodil Triangle
📍 3 miles from Newent
Each spring the countryside between Kempley, Dymock and Oxenhall — known locally as the “Golden Triangle” — fills with native wild daffodils, and the villages hold daffodil weekends with guided walks. Come back in late spring for bluebells in the local woods.
Newent Cycling Loop
📍 Newent – Oxenhall – Kempley – Redmarley – Hartpury – Newent
A 28-mile circuit on back lanes through the surrounding villages, or choose a 19-mile shortcut. Watch out at the few points where it crosses main roads.
Further afield
📍 5 to 15 miles away
Marcle Ridge circular walk (5 miles), the Malvern Hills and British Camp (12 miles), and the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, Symonds Yat and the Wye Valley (about 15 miles).
🏛️ Heritage Sites
Over 1,000 years of history — Saxon, medieval and Elizabethan — in a small market town.
The Market House
📍 Market Square
Dating from 1668, when butter was sold beneath it, the Market House stands on wooden pillars in the heart of town. Look underneath for the carved ball-and-flute beam ends thought to mark the builder's work, and on summer afternoons pop upstairs to see the heritage display.
St Mary's Church
📍 Church Street
Newent's Grade I listed parish church has 13th-century origins on a site used since Saxon times. Highlights include its wide wooden roof, an 18th-century organ, and the carved 9th-century Newent Cross that was dug up in the churchyard in 1907.
Timber-framed town centre
📍 Newent Conservation Area
Behind many shopfronts are buildings from the 1400s and 1500s. Look above the ground floor to spot the old beams and jettied upper storeys.
Pauntley Church and Court
📍 Pauntley, 3 miles from Newent
The family home of Richard “Dick” Whittington, who became Lord Mayor of London.
St Mary's Church, Kempley
📍 Kempley, GL18 2AT
An English Heritage site with one of the most complete sets of medieval wall paintings in England (12th and 14th century) and the oldest timber roof of any building in England. Free entry.
🌳 Parks and Open Spaces
Green spaces to relax, play and spot wildlife.
Newent Lake and Park
📍 Behind St Mary's Church / Lewall Street car park
Created from medieval fishponds and once part of the grounds of Newent Court. Today it has a playground, outdoor fitness equipment, carved wooden sculptures, places to picnic and step-free paths down to the water. Fishing (June to March) is by permit from Newent Town Council — check their website for who can apply.
Newent Arboretum
📍 Off Watery Lane, south of the town
Planted in 2000 for the Millennium, with over 5,000 trees and shrubs and benches along the way. Popular with families and dog walkers. Small car park at the Bradfords Lane entrance; no toilets.
May Hill
📍 3 miles from Newent
Open hilltop grassland cared for by the National Trust, with room for dogs to run and a breeze that's good for kites.
Vell Mill Daffodil Meadow
📍 Near Dymock
Small Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust nature reserve in the Leadon valley, where native daffodils bloom in early spring. Open year-round.
🏘️ Community Facilities
Places for local people to meet, learn and keep active.
Newent Community Centre
📍 Ross Road, GL18 1BD · 01531 822667
Accessible rooms for hire with a fully equipped kitchen, Wi-Fi, audio/visual equipment and free parking.
Newent Library
📍 High Street
Gloucestershire Libraries branch offering books, computers, and regular events such as a book club.
Newent Leisure Centre
📍 Newent
Swimming pool, gym, squash court, tennis courts and an artificial turf pitch, run by Freedom Leisure.
Newent Town Council
📍 The Market House, Market Square
Your local council, responsible for the lake and park, the arboretum and other town facilities.
The Daffodil Line community bus
📍 Newent – Ledbury – Ross-on-Wye
Community bus route between Newent, Ledbury and Ross-on-Wye, serving the villages along the way. Handy for a car-free day out with a walk or a pub stop in between.
Opening times, prices and access can change — please check with each venue before you travel. Know a place that should be here? Call GMT Solutions on 01531 888256 and let us know. For more ideas, visit Visit Newent.