Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a local government area in the English county of Gloucestershire. It gets on the north west edge of the Forest of Dean's present legal limit appropriate. It makes up the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and Worrall Hill. It has a mile and a fifty percent long major street, understood to be the longest main road of any type of village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward begins in the south east at Lydbrook as well as stretches to the north eastern at Ruardean. The total parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. Today community of Lydbrook seems to have had its starts in the 13th century. In a record of a sale of trees in 1256, reference is made from '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 into the River Wye) created, for part of its trips, the border in between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) as well as Rywardin (Ruardean). Today numerous maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, and also Exactly how Brook which joins the Lyd is understood on contemporary maps as Little Hough Brook. Provided in the 1282 entrances of those who had cultivated land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), shows up under the parish of Bikenore, and also under the church of Rywardin. Instead of being two different pieces of land in differing regions, it was most likely that William's land will certainly have consisted of the brook, thus his addition in the documents for both churches. On top of that, under the entry for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Thus the development of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the brook running its entire length - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to become Lyd Brook. The town developed as a site for the regional iron as well as coal industries with the houses as an advancement right into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which gave the water required for market and also domestic usage. The development of the encroachment, proceeded into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which ended up being known as Upper Lydbrook as well as Joys Green. The town only ended up being a place of population of any type of dimension 17th century onwards, but expanded progressively considering that to stay fixed for almost a century and a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s and the start of the 1990s. Nevertheless, from the start of the 1990s the community has started to gradually depopulate. One phone call to popularity of the recent past, which now is thankfully no longer real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest occurrence of consumption in England.