Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a city government district in the English county of Gloucestershire. It is on the north west edge of the Forest of Dean's existing legal limit proper. It makes up the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and also Worrall Hill. It has a mile and also a fifty percent long main street, reputed to be the lengthiest primary road of any town in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' selecting ward. This ward starts in the south east at Lydbrook as well as extends to the north eastern at Ruardean. The total parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. Today area of Lydbrook seems to have had its beginnings in the 13th century. In a record of a sale of trees in 1256, mention is made of 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Even more very early notes on Lydbrook occur in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which flows into the River Wye) created, for part of its travels, the border in between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and Rywardin (Ruardean). Today several maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, and Exactly how Brook which joins the Lyd is understood on modern maps as Little Hough Brook. Listed in the 1282 access of those who possessed grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the church of Bikenore, as well as under the church of Rywardin. As opposed to being two different parcels in differing regions, it was probably that William's land will have consisted of the brook, hence his addition in the documents for both parishes. On top of that, under the entrance for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Therefore the advancement of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the creek running its whole size - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to become Lyd Brook. The village developed as a site for the local iron and coal industries with the houses as an infringement into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which gave the water required for industry and also residential usage. The growth of the advancement, proceeded right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which came to be referred to as Upper Lydbrook and Joys Green. The village only became an area of population of any size 17th century onwards, yet grew gradually since to stay fixed for almost a century and also a half at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s and the start of the 1990s. Nonetheless, initially of the 1990s the community has begun to gradually depopulate. One phone call to fame of the current past, which now is the good news is no longer true, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean recalls that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest possible incidence of tuberculosis in England.
