Lydbrook
Lydbrook is a civil church in the Forest of Dean, a city government district in the English area of Gloucestershire. It is on the north west edge of the Forest of Dean's present legal border proper. It makes up the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and Worrall Hill. It has a mile and a fifty percent long primary street, considered to be the longest major road of any type of town 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 eastern at Ruardean. The overall parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. The present community of Lydbrook appears to have had its beginnings in the 13th century. In a document of a sale of trees in 1256, mention is made from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Even more early notes on Lydbrook occur in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which flows right into the River Wye) created, for part of its journeys, the limit in 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 Just how Brook which signs up with the Lyd is understood on modern maps as Little Hough Brook. Detailed in the 1282 entrances of those who had grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), shows up under the church of Bikenore, and under the parish of Rywardin. Instead of being two different parcels in differing regions, it was most likely that William's land will have included the brook, thus his incorporation in the records for both churches. In addition, under the access for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Therefore the development of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the creek running its entire size - the 'loud brook' or lud creek to become Lyd Brook. The village created as a site for the local iron as well as coal sectors with the houses as an infringement into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which provided the water required for sector and residential use. The development of the infringement, continued right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the location which became referred to as Upper Lydbrook and Joys Green. The town only came to be a place of population of any size 17th century onwards, yet grew steadily because to continue to be fixed for almost a century as well as a half at a population of about 2,500 in between the 1850s and the beginning of the 1990s. Nevertheless, initially of the 1990s the community has begun to gradually depopulate. One phone call to popularity of the current past, which now is thankfully no more real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the greatest incidence of consumption in England.
