Lydbrook is a civil parish 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 lawful boundary correct. It consists of the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and Worrall Hill. It has a mile as well as a half long major street, understood to be the longest main road of any kind of village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' selecting ward. This ward begins in the south east at Lydbrook as well as stretches to the north eastern at Ruardean. The complete parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. Today neighborhood of Lydbrook appears to have had its beginnings in the 13th century. In a document of a sale of trees in 1256, mention is made from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Additionally very early notes on Lydbrook occur in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which streams into the River Wye) formed, for part of its trips, the limit in between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and also Rywardin (Ruardean). Today many maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, as well as How Brook which signs up with the Lyd is known on contemporary 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, as well as under the church of Rywardin. As opposed to being 2 separate tracts in varying localities, it was most likely that William's land will have consisted of the creek, therefore his incorporation in the documents for both parishes. In addition, under the entry for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Thus the growth of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the brook running its whole size - the 'loud brook' or lud creek to become Lyd Brook. The town created as a site for the neighborhood iron and also coal sectors with your houses as an infringement right into the Forest mapping the Lyd brook which gave the water needed for industry as well as domestic use. The development of the advancement, proceeded right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which became referred to as Upper Lydbrook and Joys Green. The village just ended up being a place of population of any kind of size 17th century onwards, but grew progressively since to continue to be static for almost a century and also a half at a population of about 2,500 in between the 1850s and the start of the 1990s. Nonetheless, from the beginning of the 1990s the community has started to slowly depopulate. One phone call to fame of the recent past, which currently is luckily no more true, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest occurrence of consumption in England.