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 edge of the Forest of Dean's existing 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 half long major street, considered to be the longest major street of any type of village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and Ruardean' selecting ward. This ward begins in the south eastern at Lydbrook and stretches to the north east at Ruardean. The total parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The present community of Lydbrook seems to have had its beginnings in the 13th century. In a document of a sale of trees in 1256, mention is constructed from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Further early notes on Lydbrook occur in a survey of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which streams right into the River Wye) created, for part of its travels, the boundary between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and Rywardin (Ruardean). Today many maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, as well as Exactly how Brook which joins the Lyd is known on modern-day maps as Little Hough Brook. Provided in the 1282 entrances of those that possessed cultivated land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the parish of Bikenore, as well as under the parish of Rywardin. Rather than being 2 separate tracts in varying localities, it was probably that William's land will certainly have consisted of the creek, for this reason his incorporation in the documents for both churches. In addition, under the entry for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Therefore the growth of Lydbrook began at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the brook running its entire size - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to come to be Lyd Brook. The village developed as a site for the regional iron and coal sectors with the houses as an encroachment into the Forest mapping the Lyd brook which offered the water needed for market as well as domestic usage. The advancement of the infringement, proceeded right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the location which became referred to as Upper Lydbrook as well as Joys Green. The village only became a location of population of any kind of dimension 17th century onwards, yet expanded progressively considering that to continue to be static for virtually a century and also a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s and the beginning of the 1990s. Nonetheless, from the get go of the 1990s the area has actually begun to gradually depopulate. One phone call to popularity of the recent past, which currently is luckily no more 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.