Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a local government district in the English county of Gloucestershire. It gets on the north west edge of the Forest of Dean's present lawful boundary appropriate. It makes up the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and also Worrall Hill. It has a mile and also a fifty percent lengthy major street, reputed to be the longest major road of any kind of town in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook as well as 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 appears to have had its beginnings in the 13th century. In a document of a sale of trees in 1256, reference is made from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Additionally early notes on Lydbrook take place in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which moves right into the River Wye) formed, for part of its journeys, the boundary in between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) as well as Rywardin (Ruardean). Today several maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, and How Brook which signs up with the Lyd is understood on modern-day maps as Little Hough Brook. Noted in the 1282 entries of those who had cultivated land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), shows up under the church of Bikenore, as well as under the church of Rywardin. Instead of being 2 separate pieces of land in varying regions, it was most likely that William's land will have included the brook, hence his inclusion in the documents for both churches. Additionally, under the entrance for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Hence the development of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the brook running its whole size - the 'loud brook' or lud creek to end up being Lyd Brook. The town developed as a site for the neighborhood iron as well as coal markets with the houses as an advancement into the Forest mapping the Lyd brook which supplied the water required for industry and also residential usage. The growth of the advancement, continued right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the location which came to be referred to as Upper Lydbrook and also Joys Green. The town only came to be a location of population of any kind of size 17th century onwards, yet expanded steadily because to stay fixed for almost a century and a half at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s and the start of the 1990s. Nevertheless, initially of the 1990s the neighborhood has started to slowly depopulate. One contact us to fame of the recent past, which now is luckily no more true, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest incidence of consumption in England.