Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a local government area in the English region of Gloucestershire. It is on the north west side of the Forest of Dean's present lawful boundary appropriate. It comprises the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and Worrall Hill. It has a mile as well as a half lengthy major road, understood to be the longest main street of any kind of town in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' selecting ward. This ward begins in the south eastern at Lydbrook as well as extends to the north eastern at Ruardean. The complete parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The present community of Lydbrook seems to have had its starts in the 13th century. In a record of a sale of trees in 1256, reference is constructed from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Better early notes on Lydbrook happen in a survey of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which streams right into the River Wye) developed, for part of its journeys, the limit 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 Just how Brook which joins the Lyd is known on modern-day maps as Little Hough Brook. Detailed in the 1282 entries of those who possessed cultivated land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the parish of Bikenore, and under the church of Rywardin. As opposed to being 2 different parcels in varying areas, it was most likely that William's land will certainly have consisted of the creek, hence his addition in the records for both churches. Furthermore, under the entrance for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Thus the advancement of Lydbrook began at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the brook running its entire size - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to end up being Lyd Brook. The village established as a site for the neighborhood iron and coal industries with your homes as an encroachment right into the Forest mapping the Lyd brook which provided the water required for market and also residential use. The advancement of the infringement, proceeded into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the location which ended up being known as Upper Lydbrook and Joys Green. The town only ended up being a location of population of any type of size 17th century onwards, but expanded progressively since to stay fixed for virtually a century as well as a half at a population of about 2,500 in between the 1850s as well as the beginning of the 1990s. However, from the start of the 1990s the community has started to slowly depopulate. One call to popularity of the recent past, which currently is luckily no longer real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest incidence of tuberculosis in England.