Lydbrook is a civil church in the Forest of Dean, a local government area in the English area of Gloucestershire. It gets on the north west side of the Forest of Dean's existing legal boundary appropriate. It makes up the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and also Worrall Hill. It has a mile and also a half long main road, considered to be the lengthiest main street of any village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook as well as Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward begins in the south east at Lydbrook as well as extends to the north east at Ruardean. The overall parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The present area of Lydbrook seems to have had its starts in the 13th century. In a document of a sale of trees in 1256, reference is constructed from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Additionally early notes on Lydbrook happen in a survey of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which streams into the River Wye) developed, for part of its journeys, the border between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and also Rywardin (Ruardean). Today numerous maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, and Exactly how Brook which joins the Lyd is understood on modern maps as Little Hough Brook. Detailed in the 1282 entrances of those who had grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), shows up under the parish of Bikenore, and also under the church of Rywardin. Rather than being two separate tracts in varying areas, it was possibly that William's land will have consisted of the creek, therefore his inclusion in the records for both parishes. On top of that, under the entry for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Therefore the advancement of Lydbrook began at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the creek running its whole length - the 'loud brook' or lud creek to end up being Lyd Brook. The town created as a site for the local iron and coal sectors with the houses as an encroachment right into the Forest mapping the Lyd brook which offered the water required for industry as well as domestic use. The advancement of the encroachment, proceeded into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the location which ended up being known as Upper Lydbrook as well as Joys Green. The village only came to be a location of population of any type of dimension 17th century onwards, yet grew continuously considering that to continue to be static for practically a century and a half at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s and the beginning of the 1990s. Nonetheless, from the start of the 1990s the area has started to gradually depopulate. One contact us to popularity of the recent past, which now is thankfully no longer real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean recalls that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest possible incidence of consumption in England.