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 existing legal boundary proper. It consists of the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green as well as Worrall Hill. It has a mile as well as a fifty percent lengthy major street, deemed to be the lengthiest major road of any village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook as well as Ruardean' selecting ward. This ward begins in the south east at Lydbrook and extends to the north eastern at Ruardean. The total parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The here and now area of Lydbrook appears to have had its starts in the 13th century. In a document of a sale of trees in 1256, mention is constructed from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Further very early notes on Lydbrook happen in a survey of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which flows right into the River Wye) created, for part of its trips, the limit in between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and also Rywardin (Ruardean). Today lots of maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, and Just how Brook which signs up with the Lyd is known on modern-day maps as Little Hough Brook. Noted in the 1282 entrances of those that had grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the parish of Bikenore, and also under the parish of Rywardin. As opposed to being two different pieces of land in varying localities, it was most likely that William's land will certainly have consisted of the brook, therefore his inclusion in the documents for both churches. Furthermore, under the entrance for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Hence the advancement of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the brook running its whole length - the 'loud brook' or lud creek to come to be Lyd Brook. The village established as a site for the neighborhood iron as well as coal markets with the houses as an infringement right into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which gave the water needed for industry and residential use. The growth of the encroachment, proceeded into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the location which came to be known as Upper Lydbrook and also Joys Green. The village just ended up being a place of population of any kind of dimension 17th century onwards, however expanded gradually since to remain fixed for virtually a century and also a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s and also the start of the 1990s. Nevertheless, initially of the 1990s the neighborhood has actually started to slowly depopulate. One contact us to popularity of the current past, which now is thankfully no longer true, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest possible occurrence of consumption in England.