Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a city government area in the English county of Gloucestershire. It gets on the north west edge of the Forest of Dean's present legal limit proper. It consists of the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and Worrall Hill. It has a mile and also a half long primary road, considered to be the lengthiest main street of any type of town in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' selecting ward. This ward starts in the south east at Lydbrook as well as extends to the north east at Ruardean. The complete 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 of 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Better early notes on Lydbrook happen in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which streams right into the River Wye) created, for part of its travels, the border between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) as well as Rywardin (Ruardean). Today lots of maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, as well as How Brook which signs up with the Lyd is recognized on contemporary maps as Little Hough Brook. Noted in the 1282 access of those who possessed cultivated land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), shows up under the parish of Bikenore, as well as under the church of Rywardin. Instead of being two different pieces of land in varying regions, it was probably that William's land will certainly have included the brook, for this reason his inclusion in the documents for both parishes. In addition, under the access for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Hence the advancement of Lydbrook began at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the brook running its entire length - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to come to be Lyd Brook. The town developed as a site for the local iron and coal industries with your houses as an encroachment into the Forest mapping the Lyd brook which offered the water needed for market and also residential use. The growth of the encroachment, proceeded right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which became referred to as Upper Lydbrook as well as Joys Green. The village only became a place of population of any type of dimension 17th century onwards, yet grew steadily since to remain fixed for nearly a century and a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 in between the 1850s as well as the beginning of the 1990s. Nevertheless, initially of the 1990s the neighborhood has begun to gradually depopulate. One phone call to popularity of the current past, which now is luckily no more true, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean recalls that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest possible incidence of consumption in England.