Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a local government district in the English county of Gloucestershire. It is on the north west side of the Forest of Dean's present legal border appropriate. It consists of the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and Worrall Hill. It has a mile and also a fifty percent long major street, understood to be the longest major street of any town in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward begins in the south east at Lydbrook and also extends to the north east at Ruardean. The complete parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The here and now neighborhood of Lydbrook appears to have had its starts in the 13th century. In a document of a sale of trees in 1256, reference is made of 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Further very early notes on Lydbrook happen in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which flows into the River Wye) developed, for part of its travels, the boundary between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and also Rywardin (Ruardean). Today lots of maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, as well as Exactly how Brook which joins the Lyd is known on modern maps as Little Hough Brook. Provided in the 1282 entrances of those who possessed grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the church of Bikenore, and also under the parish of Rywardin. As opposed to being 2 separate parcels in varying regions, it was possibly that William's land will certainly have included the brook, hence his addition in the documents for both parishes. On top of that, under the access for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Hence the advancement of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the brook running its whole size - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to come to be Lyd Brook. The village established as a site for the local iron and also coal industries with the houses as an encroachment into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which provided the water needed for industry and also domestic usage. The advancement of the advancement, proceeded into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which ended up being called Upper Lydbrook as well as Joys Green. The town just became an area of population of any size 17th century onwards, but grew continuously considering that to remain fixed for almost a century and a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 in between the 1850s and also the beginning of the 1990s. However, initially of the 1990s the community has actually begun to gradually depopulate. One contact us to fame of the recent past, which currently is fortunately no more real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the greatest incidence of consumption in England.