Lydbrook is a civil church in the Forest of Dean, a local government district in the English county of Gloucestershire. It is on the north west edge of the Forest of Dean's existing legal limit correct. It consists of the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and Worrall Hill. It has a mile and a fifty percent lengthy main street, understood to be the longest primary road of any village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward begins in the south east at Lydbrook as well as extends 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 document of a sale of trees in 1256, reference is constructed from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Additionally early notes on Lydbrook happen in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which streams right into the River Wye) formed, for part of its travels, the border in between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and 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 recognized on modern-day maps as Little Hough Brook. Provided in the 1282 entries of those who had cultivated land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), shows up under the church of Bikenore, as well as under the church of Rywardin. Rather than being 2 separate parcels in differing areas, it was probably that William's land will have included the brook, for this reason his addition in the documents for both churches. Furthermore, under the entry for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Therefore the development of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the creek running its whole length - the 'loud brook' or lud creek to become Lyd Brook. The village developed as a site for the regional iron and also coal markets with your homes as an advancement right into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which offered the water needed for sector and also domestic use. The advancement of the encroachment, continued right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which became called Upper Lydbrook and Joys Green. The village just became a place of population of any type of size 17th century onwards, however expanded gradually since to stay fixed for almost a century as well as a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s and also the start of the 1990s. Nonetheless, initially of the 1990s the neighborhood has actually started to slowly depopulate. One contact us to fame of the recent past, which now is fortunately no longer true, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean recalls that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the greatest incidence of consumption in England.