Lydbrook is a civil church in the Forest of Dean, a local government area in the English region of Gloucestershire. It gets on the north west edge of the Forest of Dean's present legal border proper. It consists of the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green as well as Worrall Hill. It has a mile and a half long primary street, reputed to be the lengthiest primary road of any type of town in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward begins in the south eastern at Lydbrook and also extends to the north eastern 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 record of a sale of trees in 1256, reference is made of 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Further very early notes on Lydbrook happen in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which streams right into the River Wye) developed, for part of its trips, the boundary in between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) as well as Rywardin (Ruardean). Today numerous maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, and also How Brook which joins the Lyd is known on modern-day maps as Little Hough Brook. Detailed in the 1282 access of those that possessed grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the parish of Bikenore, and also under the church of Rywardin. Instead of being two different tracts in varying regions, it was most likely that William's land will have included the brook, hence his inclusion in the records for both parishes. On top of that, under the access for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Therefore the development of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the brook running its whole length - the 'loud brook' or lud creek to become Lyd Brook. The town created as a site for the local iron and coal industries with your homes as an advancement into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which supplied the water needed for sector as well as domestic usage. The growth of the infringement, continued into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which became known as Upper Lydbrook and also Joys Green. The town only came to be a location of population of any kind of size 17th century onwards, however expanded progressively considering that to remain static for almost a century as well as a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s and also the beginning of the 1990s. Nonetheless, from the start of the 1990s the area has started to gradually depopulate. One call to fame of the recent past, which now is fortunately no longer real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest occurrence of consumption in England.