Lydbrook is a civil church in the Forest of Dean, a city government area in the English region of Gloucestershire. It gets on the north west edge of the Forest of Dean's present lawful limit proper. It consists of the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and also Worrall Hill. It has a mile and also a half lengthy primary road, reputed to be the lengthiest main road of any kind of town in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward begins in the south eastern at Lydbrook and also extends to the north east at Ruardean. The complete parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The present area of Lydbrook appears to have had its starts in the 13th century. In a document of a sale of trees in 1256, reference is made of 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Further very early notes on Lydbrook take place in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which flows right into the River Wye) created, for part of its trips, the border in between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) as well as Rywardin (Ruardean). Today lots of maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, as well as How Brook which signs up with the Lyd is understood on contemporary maps as Little Hough Brook. Noted in the 1282 entries of those that possessed grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), shows up under the church of Bikenore, as well as under the church of Rywardin. Instead of being 2 separate pieces of land in differing areas, it was most likely that William's land will have consisted of the creek, for this reason his addition in the records for both churches. Additionally, under the entry for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Thus the advancement of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the creek running its entire length - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to come to be Lyd Brook. The town created as a site for the neighborhood iron as well as coal industries with the houses as an infringement into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which offered the water required for industry and also residential use. The development of the infringement, proceeded right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which became called Upper Lydbrook as well as Joys Green. The town just became an area of population of any kind of size 17th century onwards, but expanded steadily because to stay static for nearly a century and also a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s as well as the beginning of the 1990s. Nonetheless, from the start of the 1990s the community has begun to gradually depopulate. One contact us to fame of the recent past, which now is luckily no longer real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean recalls that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest occurrence of consumption in England.