Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a local government area in the English county of Gloucestershire. It is on the north west edge of the Forest of Dean's present legal limit proper. It makes up the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green as well as Worrall Hill. It has a mile and a half lengthy primary road, reputed to be the longest major street of any type of village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook as well as Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward begins in the south eastern at Lydbrook and extends to the north eastern at Ruardean. The overall parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. Today area of Lydbrook appears to have had its beginnings in the 13th century. In a record of a sale of trees in 1256, mention is constructed from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Further early notes on Lydbrook happen in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which streams right into the River Wye) developed, for part of its journeys, the border between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and Rywardin (Ruardean). Today several maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, as well as Exactly how Brook which joins the Lyd is recognized on contemporary maps as Little Hough Brook. Detailed in the 1282 entries of those that had grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the church of Bikenore, and also under the parish of Rywardin. Instead of being 2 separate tracts in differing regions, it was possibly that William's land will have included the creek, for this reason his incorporation in the documents for both churches. Furthermore, under the entrance for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Thus the advancement of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the brook running its entire size - the 'loud brook' or lud creek to end up being Lyd Brook. The town created as a site for the local iron as well as coal markets with the houses as an advancement right into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which supplied the water required for industry and also domestic usage. The advancement of the infringement, proceeded into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which became called Upper Lydbrook as well as Joys Green. The town just came to be a place of population of any kind of dimension 17th century onwards, yet grew continuously given that to stay fixed for almost a century and a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s as well as the beginning of the 1990s. Nevertheless, from the get go of the 1990s the area has started to gradually depopulate. One contact us to fame of the recent past, which now is thankfully no longer real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean recalls that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the greatest incidence of tuberculosis in England.