Lydbrook is a civil church in the Forest of Dean, a city government area in the English area of Gloucestershire. It is on the north west side of the Forest of Dean's existing lawful border correct. It consists of the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green as well as Worrall Hill. It has a mile and also a fifty percent long main street, understood to be the lengthiest major road of any kind of village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward begins in the south eastern at Lydbrook as well as stretches to the north eastern at Ruardean. The overall parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The present neighborhood of Lydbrook appears 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'. Even more early notes on Lydbrook happen in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which moves into the River Wye) formed, for part of its travels, the border in 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 recognized on modern-day maps as Little Hough Brook. Listed in the 1282 entries of those who possessed grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), shows up under the church of Bikenore, as well as under the church of Rywardin. Instead of being two different pieces of land in varying regions, it was most likely that William's land will certainly have consisted of the creek, hence his inclusion in the documents for both churches. Furthermore, under the access for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Thus 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 become Lyd Brook. The town established as a site for the neighborhood iron and also coal industries with your houses as an encroachment into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which provided the water needed for industry and also residential usage. The advancement of the advancement, proceeded right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the location which became called Upper Lydbrook and also Joys Green. The town just ended up being a location of population of any size 17th century onwards, however grew steadily considering that to stay static for virtually a century as well as a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 in between the 1850s as well as the start of the 1990s. Nonetheless, initially of the 1990s the neighborhood has begun to slowly depopulate. One contact us to popularity of the current past, which now is thankfully no more real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean recalls that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest possible incidence of tuberculosis in England.