Lydbrook is a civil church in the Forest of Dean, a local government district in the English region of Gloucestershire. It is on the north west side of the Forest of Dean's existing lawful border appropriate. It consists of the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and Worrall Hill. It has a mile and a half lengthy major road, considered to be the longest major road of any kind of town in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward begins in the south eastern at Lydbrook and stretches to the north east at Ruardean. The total parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The present neighborhood of Lydbrook seems to have had its beginnings in the 13th century. In a document of a sale of trees in 1256, mention is made of 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Further very early notes on Lydbrook take place in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which moves right into the River Wye) formed, for part of its trips, the border between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and also Rywardin (Ruardean). Today numerous maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, and also How Brook which joins the Lyd is recognized on contemporary maps as Little Hough Brook. Provided in the 1282 entrances of those who had grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the parish of Bikenore, and under the church of Rywardin. Rather than being 2 different tracts in differing localities, it was probably that William's land will certainly have included the creek, hence his addition in the records for both churches. Additionally, under the access for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Therefore the advancement of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the brook running its entire size - the 'loud brook' or lud creek to come to be Lyd Brook. The town established as a site for the local iron and coal industries with your homes as an infringement into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which offered the water needed for sector as well as domestic usage. The development of the infringement, proceeded right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which became known as Upper Lydbrook and also Joys Green. The town just ended up being a location of population of any dimension 17th century onwards, yet expanded gradually since to stay static for nearly a century and also a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s and the start of the 1990s. Nevertheless, from the get go of the 1990s the area has begun to slowly depopulate. One call to popularity of the current past, which currently is fortunately no more real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean recalls that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the greatest occurrence of tuberculosis in England.