Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a city government district in the English county of Gloucestershire. It gets on the north west side of the Forest of Dean's present lawful limit correct. It makes up the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and Worrall Hill. It has a mile and also a fifty percent lengthy primary road, considered to be the lengthiest main street of any kind of town in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook as well as Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward begins in the south east at Lydbrook and also extends to the north east at Ruardean. The total parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. Today community of Lydbrook appears to have had its beginnings in the 13th century. In a document of a sale of trees in 1256, mention is made from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Even more early notes on Lydbrook take place in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which streams right into the River Wye) formed, for part of its trips, the boundary in between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and Rywardin (Ruardean). Today several 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 cultivated land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), shows up under the church of Bikenore, and under the church of Rywardin. Instead of being 2 different parcels in differing localities, it was most likely that William's land will certainly have consisted of the creek, thus his addition in the documents for both churches. Additionally, under the access for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Therefore the development of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the brook running its whole length - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to end up being Lyd Brook. The village established as a site for the regional iron and also coal sectors with your houses as an encroachment right into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which provided the water required for sector and residential usage. The advancement of the encroachment, proceeded right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which became referred to as Upper Lydbrook and also Joys Green. The village just came to be an area of population of any type of dimension 17th century onwards, yet grew progressively since to continue to be static for virtually a century as well as a half at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s and the start of the 1990s. However, initially of the 1990s the community has started to slowly depopulate. One contact us to fame of the recent past, which now is the good news is no longer true, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean recalls that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest possible occurrence of consumption in England.