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 side of the Forest of Dean's present legal limit proper. It consists of the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and Worrall Hill. It has a mile and also a fifty percent lengthy primary street, deemed to be the longest main street of any type of town in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' selecting ward. This ward starts in the south eastern at Lydbrook and also stretches to the north east at Ruardean. The total parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. Today area of Lydbrook seems to have had its starts 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 take place in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which moves into the River Wye) developed, for part of its travels, the limit in between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and Rywardin (Ruardean). Today several maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, as well as Exactly how Brook which joins the Lyd is understood on modern maps as Little Hough Brook. Listed in the 1282 entrances of those who had grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the parish of Bikenore, and also under the parish of Rywardin. Rather than being 2 separate pieces of land in varying areas, it was possibly that William's land will have included the brook, thus his incorporation in the documents for both parishes. On top of that, under the entrance for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Therefore the development of Lydbrook began at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the brook running its whole size - the 'loud brook' or lud creek to come to be Lyd Brook. The town established as a site for the neighborhood iron as well as coal industries with your homes as an encroachment right into the Forest mapping the Lyd brook which offered the water needed for industry as well as residential use. The growth of the advancement, proceeded right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which became called Upper Lydbrook as well as Joys Green. The village just became an area of population of any size 17th century onwards, yet grew progressively because to continue to be fixed for almost a century and a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s and the start of the 1990s. However, from the start of the 1990s the area has actually begun to gradually depopulate. One call to popularity of the recent past, which currently is thankfully no more true, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest occurrence of tuberculosis in England.