Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a city government area in the English region of Gloucestershire. It gets on the north west side of the Forest of Dean's existing legal limit correct. It consists of the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and Worrall Hill. It has a mile and also a half lengthy main road, deemed to be the lengthiest major road of any type of town in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and Ruardean' selecting ward. This ward starts in the south east 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 neighborhood of Lydbrook seems to have had its starts in the 13th century. In a record of a sale of trees in 1256, reference is made from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Further very early notes on Lydbrook occur in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which streams right into the River Wye) formed, for part of its trips, the border in between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and Rywardin (Ruardean). Today many maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, and also Just how Brook which signs up with the Lyd is recognized on modern-day maps as Little Hough Brook. Listed in the 1282 entries of those that possessed grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the parish of Bikenore, and under the parish of Rywardin. Rather than being two different parcels in differing regions, it was most likely that William's land will certainly have consisted of the brook, therefore his addition in the documents for both churches. Furthermore, under the entrance for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Hence the development of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the creek running its entire size - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to end up being Lyd Brook. The village created as a site for the local iron and coal markets with your houses as an advancement right into the Forest mapping the Lyd brook which gave the water needed for industry as well as residential usage. The growth of the infringement, proceeded right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the location which became known as Upper Lydbrook and also Joys Green. The town only ended up being a location of population of any dimension 17th century onwards, however expanded gradually because to continue to be fixed for almost a century as well as a half at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s and also the start of the 1990s. Nevertheless, initially of the 1990s the area has actually started to slowly depopulate. One contact us to popularity of the recent past, which currently is the good news is no more true, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest possible incidence of tuberculosis in England.