Lydbrook is a civil church in the Forest of Dean, a local government district in the English county of Gloucestershire. It gets on the north west edge of the Forest of Dean's existing lawful border correct. It consists of the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green as well as Worrall Hill. It has a mile as well as a half lengthy primary street, understood to be the lengthiest main road of any type of village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also 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 area of Lydbrook appears to have had its starts in the 13th century. In a document of a sale of trees in 1256, reference is made of 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Better early notes on Lydbrook happen in a survey of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which flows into the River Wye) developed, for part of its trips, the limit between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) as well as Rywardin (Ruardean). Today numerous maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, as well as Exactly how Brook which signs up with the Lyd is understood on modern maps as Little Hough Brook. Listed in the 1282 entries of those that possessed cultivated land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), shows up under the church of Bikenore, and under the parish of Rywardin. Rather than being two different parcels in differing areas, it was possibly that William's land will have consisted of the brook, hence his incorporation in the records for both parishes. Additionally, under the access for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Therefore the development of Lydbrook began at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the creek running its entire length - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to end up being Lyd Brook. The town established as a site for the neighborhood iron as well as coal markets with your homes as an encroachment into the Forest mapping the Lyd brook which supplied the water required for industry and residential use. The development of the encroachment, proceeded into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which came to be known as Upper Lydbrook as well as Joys Green. The village only became a place of population of any dimension 17th century onwards, yet expanded steadily since to remain static for virtually a century as well as a half at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s and also the beginning of the 1990s. Nevertheless, from the beginning of the 1990s the neighborhood has begun to slowly depopulate. One phone call to fame of the current past, which now is fortunately no longer real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the greatest occurrence of tuberculosis in England.