Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a city government district in the English region of Gloucestershire. It is on the north west edge of the Forest of Dean's present legal limit correct. It consists of the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and Worrall Hill. It has a mile as well as a half lengthy main road, understood to be the longest main road of any type of town in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook as well as Ruardean' selecting ward. This ward begins in the south eastern at Lydbrook and stretches to the north eastern at Ruardean. The total parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The here and now community of Lydbrook seems to have had its starts in the 13th century. In a record of a sale of trees in 1256, mention is made from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Better very early notes on Lydbrook happen in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which flows right into the River Wye) developed, for part of its trips, the boundary in 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 Exactly how Brook which signs up with the Lyd is known on modern maps as Little Hough Brook. Provided in the 1282 access of those that had cultivated land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), shows up under the church of Bikenore, as well as under the parish of Rywardin. Instead of being 2 separate parcels in varying localities, it was probably that William's land will certainly have consisted of the brook, thus his inclusion in the records for both parishes. Furthermore, under the entrance for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Thus the development of Lydbrook began at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the brook running its entire length - the 'loud brook' or lud creek to come to be Lyd Brook. The town developed as a site for the regional iron and also coal industries with the houses as an advancement right into the Forest mapping the Lyd brook which offered the water needed for sector and also domestic usage. The advancement of the encroachment, proceeded into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the location which ended up being called Upper Lydbrook and Joys Green. The town only became a location of population of any kind of size 17th century onwards, but expanded steadily because to remain fixed for practically a century and a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s and the beginning of the 1990s. Nevertheless, initially of the 1990s the neighborhood has started to gradually depopulate. One phone call to popularity of the recent past, which currently is fortunately no longer real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the greatest occurrence of tuberculosis in England.