Lydbrook is a civil church in the Forest of Dean, a local government area in the English region of Gloucestershire. It gets on the north west side of the Forest of Dean's existing lawful limit proper. It consists of the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and also Worrall Hill. It has a mile as well as a half lengthy main street, understood to be the lengthiest primary street of any type of village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and Ruardean' selecting ward. This ward begins in the south eastern at Lydbrook and stretches to the north east at Ruardean. The overall parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The present community of Lydbrook seems to have had its beginnings in the 13th century. In a document of a sale of trees in 1256, reference is constructed from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Even more early notes on Lydbrook happen in a survey of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which moves right into the River Wye) created, for part of its journeys, the limit between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and also Rywardin (Ruardean). Today lots of maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, and also Exactly how Brook which signs up with the Lyd is understood on modern maps as Little Hough Brook. Listed in the 1282 entries of those who had grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the church of Bikenore, as well as under the parish of Rywardin. As opposed to being 2 different pieces of land in differing localities, it was probably that William's land will certainly have included the brook, therefore his addition in the records for both churches. On top of that, under the entry for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Therefore the development of Lydbrook began at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the brook running its whole size - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to end up being Lyd Brook. The village created as a site for the regional iron as well as coal markets with your homes as an advancement into the Forest mapping the Lyd brook which provided the water needed for market as well as domestic use. The growth of the encroachment, continued into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the location which became referred to as Upper Lydbrook and also Joys Green. The town just ended up being an area of population of any type of dimension 17th century onwards, however grew gradually considering that to stay static for virtually a century and a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 in between the 1850s and also the beginning of the 1990s. Nonetheless, initially of the 1990s the area has started to gradually depopulate. One call to popularity of the recent past, which now is fortunately no more true, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest incidence of consumption in England.