Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a local government district in the English region of Gloucestershire. It gets on the north west side of the Forest of Dean's existing legal boundary proper. It makes up the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and Worrall Hill. It has a mile and also a half lengthy main road, considered to be the lengthiest main road of any village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and Ruardean' selecting ward. This ward begins in the south eastern at Lydbrook as well as extends to the north east at Ruardean. The complete parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The present 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 constructed from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Additionally early notes on Lydbrook take place in a survey of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which flows into the River Wye) created, for part of its travels, the boundary between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and Rywardin (Ruardean). Today numerous maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, and How Brook which signs up with the Lyd is understood on modern maps as Little Hough Brook. Detailed in the 1282 entrances of those who possessed grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the church of Bikenore, and also under the church of Rywardin. Rather than being 2 separate pieces of land in differing regions, it was possibly that William's land will certainly have consisted of the brook, thus his incorporation in the records for both parishes. Additionally, under the access for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Hence 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 end up being Lyd Brook. The town developed as a site for the neighborhood iron as well as coal industries with your homes as an encroachment into the Forest mapping the Lyd brook which provided the water required for market and residential usage. The development of the encroachment, continued into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the location which ended up being known as Upper Lydbrook and Joys Green. The town only became an area of population of any kind of dimension 17th century onwards, but grew gradually since to remain fixed for practically a century and also a half at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s as well as the beginning of the 1990s. Nonetheless, initially of the 1990s the area has started to slowly depopulate. One contact us to fame of the recent past, which currently is the good news is no longer real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest incidence of tuberculosis in England.