Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a city government area in the English area of Gloucestershire. It gets on the north west side of the Forest of Dean's present lawful boundary 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 main road, reputed to be the longest primary street of any village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward starts in the south east at Lydbrook and stretches to the north east at Ruardean. The overall parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The present area of Lydbrook seems to have had its beginnings in the 13th century. In a record of a sale of trees in 1256, reference is constructed from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Further early notes on Lydbrook take place in a survey of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which streams into the River Wye) created, for part of its travels, the border between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and also Rywardin (Ruardean). Today several maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, and also How Brook which signs up with the Lyd is recognized on modern-day maps as Little Hough Brook. Listed in the 1282 access of those that had cultivated land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the parish of Bikenore, as well as under the parish of Rywardin. Rather than being 2 separate tracts in differing regions, it was possibly that William's land will have included the creek, hence his addition in the records for both churches. Furthermore, under the entry for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Hence the development of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the brook running its whole size - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to end up being Lyd Brook. The town created as a site for the regional iron and also coal industries with your houses as an encroachment into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which provided the water needed for sector and residential usage. The advancement of the encroachment, continued right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which came to be known as Upper Lydbrook and Joys Green. The village only ended up being a place of population of any type of dimension 17th century onwards, but grew gradually because to continue to be fixed for virtually 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 beginning of the 1990s the neighborhood has started to gradually depopulate. One contact us to fame of the current past, which currently is luckily no more real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the greatest occurrence of tuberculosis in England.
