Lydbrook is a civil church in the Forest of Dean, a city government area in the English county of Gloucestershire. It gets on the north west side of the Forest of Dean's present lawful border proper. It comprises the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green as well as Worrall Hill. It has a mile as well as a fifty percent long primary road, reputed to be the longest primary road of any village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward starts in the south east at Lydbrook and also extends to the north eastern at Ruardean. The total parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. Today community of Lydbrook seems to have had its starts in the 13th century. In a document of a sale of trees in 1256, mention is made of 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Additionally early notes on Lydbrook occur in a survey of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which moves into the River Wye) developed, for part of its journeys, 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, and also Just how Brook which signs up with the Lyd is known on modern-day maps as Little Hough Brook. Noted in the 1282 entrances of those who had grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the church of Bikenore, and under the church of Rywardin. Rather than being 2 different pieces of land in differing localities, it was possibly that William's land will have included the brook, therefore his inclusion in the records for both churches. Additionally, under the entry for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Thus the growth of Lydbrook began at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the brook running its entire length - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to become Lyd Brook. The village created as a site for the neighborhood iron and coal industries with the houses as an infringement right into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which gave the water required for market and also residential usage. The development of the infringement, proceeded into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the location which became referred to as Upper Lydbrook and also Joys Green. The village just ended up being a location of population of any kind of dimension 17th century onwards, yet expanded progressively since to remain fixed for almost a century and also a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s as well as the beginning of the 1990s. Nonetheless, from the get go of the 1990s the community has begun to slowly depopulate. One call to fame of the recent past, which now is thankfully no more true, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean recalls that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the greatest occurrence of consumption in England.