Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a city government area in the English county of Gloucestershire. It is on the north west side of the Forest of Dean's existing lawful limit correct. It makes up the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and also Worrall Hill. It has a mile and a fifty percent long major road, reputed to be the longest major street of any kind of town in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' selecting ward. This ward starts in the south east at Lydbrook and stretches to the north eastern at Ruardean. The complete parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The present neighborhood of Lydbrook seems 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'. Additionally very early notes on Lydbrook take place in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which streams right into the River Wye) created, for part of its journeys, the limit in between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and also Rywardin (Ruardean). Today numerous maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, and also Just how Brook which joins the Lyd is known on modern-day maps as Little Hough Brook. Listed in the 1282 access of those who possessed grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the church of Bikenore, as well as under the church of Rywardin. As opposed to being 2 separate pieces of land in differing localities, it was probably that William's land will have included the creek, thus his addition in the documents for both churches. On top of that, under the access for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Therefore the growth of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the brook running its entire size - the 'loud brook' or lud creek to come to be Lyd Brook. The town established as a site for the neighborhood iron and also coal industries with the houses as an encroachment right into the Forest mapping the Lyd brook which offered the water required for sector and domestic use. The growth of the advancement, proceeded right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which became known as Upper Lydbrook and also Joys Green. The village just ended up being a place of population of any kind of size 17th century onwards, however grew continuously because to continue to be static for nearly a century as well as a half at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s as well as the start of the 1990s. However, from the beginning of the 1990s the area has actually started to gradually depopulate. One call to fame of the recent past, which currently is fortunately no more true, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest possible occurrence of tuberculosis in England.