Trent is a village and civil parish in northwest Dorset, England, situated in the Yeo valley 4 miles northwest of Sherborne and four miles northeast of Yeovil. It was formerly in Somerset. In the 2011 census the parish—which includes the hamlets of Adber and Hummer to the north—had a population of 317. The parish was part of the Somerset hundred of Horethorne. Charles II of England stayed at Trent House for several days during his escape to France in 1651.