Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a city government district in the English region of Gloucestershire. It is on the north west side of the Forest of Dean's present lawful boundary correct. It makes up the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green as well as Worrall Hill. It has a mile and a fifty percent long main street, deemed to be the longest major road of any kind of village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' selecting ward. This ward starts in the south eastern at Lydbrook as well as stretches to the north east at Ruardean. The overall parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The here and now community of Lydbrook appears to have had its beginnings in the 13th century. In a record of a sale of trees in 1256, reference is made of 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Further early notes on Lydbrook happen in a survey of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which moves into the River Wye) created, for part of its trips, the boundary in between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and Rywardin (Ruardean). Today many maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, and also How Brook which joins the Lyd is understood on modern-day maps as Little Hough Brook. Provided in the 1282 entries of those who possessed cultivated land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), shows up under the parish of Bikenore, as well as under the parish of Rywardin. Rather than being two different pieces of land in differing areas, it was most likely that William's land will certainly have included the brook, hence his addition in the records for both churches. Additionally, under the entrance for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Thus the growth of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the creek running its whole length - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to come to be Lyd Brook. The village created as a site for the regional iron and also coal industries with the houses as an infringement right into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which supplied the water required for sector and also domestic use. The advancement of the encroachment, continued into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which became referred to as Upper Lydbrook and Joys Green. The town only came to be an area of population of any kind of dimension 17th century onwards, yet grew progressively because to remain static for virtually a century and also a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 in between the 1850s as well as the start of the 1990s. However, initially of the 1990s the community has actually started to gradually depopulate. One phone call to fame of the recent past, which currently is the good news is no longer real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest incidence of consumption in England.