Lydbrook is a civil church in the Forest of Dean, a city government district in the English area of Gloucestershire. It is on the north west edge of the Forest of Dean's present legal boundary correct. It makes up the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green as well as Worrall Hill. It has a mile and a fifty percent long main road, deemed to be the longest primary road of any kind of village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook as well as Ruardean' selecting ward. This ward begins in the south east at Lydbrook and also extends to the north east at Ruardean. The overall parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The here and now community of Lydbrook seems to have had its starts in the 13th century. In a document of a sale of trees in 1256, reference is made from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Even more early notes on Lydbrook occur in a survey of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which streams into the River Wye) created, for part of its travels, the boundary between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) as well as Rywardin (Ruardean). Today several maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, as well as How Brook which signs up with the Lyd is known on modern maps as Little Hough Brook. Listed in the 1282 entries of those who possessed cultivated land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), shows up under the church of Bikenore, as well as under the church of Rywardin. Rather than being 2 separate pieces of land in differing regions, it was possibly that William's land will have consisted of the brook, hence his addition in the documents for both churches. Furthermore, under the access for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Hence the development of Lydbrook began at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the brook running its whole length - the 'loud brook' or lud creek to come to be Lyd Brook. The town established as a site for the neighborhood iron and also coal industries with your homes as an advancement into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which provided the water needed for industry and also domestic usage. The growth of the encroachment, proceeded right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which became referred to as Upper Lydbrook as well as Joys Green. The town just came to be a location of population of any dimension 17th century onwards, yet expanded continuously because to stay fixed for practically a century and a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 in between the 1850s as well as the beginning of the 1990s. Nonetheless, initially of the 1990s the neighborhood has begun to slowly depopulate. One phone call to popularity of the recent past, which currently is thankfully no longer real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean recalls that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest occurrence of tuberculosis in England.