Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a city government area in the English area of Gloucestershire. It is on the north west side of the Forest of Dean's existing lawful border appropriate. It makes up the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and also Worrall Hill. It has a mile and also a half long primary road, considered to be the lengthiest primary road of any kind of village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward begins in the south eastern at Lydbrook and also stretches to the north eastern at Ruardean. The overall parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. Today community of Lydbrook appears to have had its beginnings in the 13th century. In a record of a sale of trees in 1256, mention is made of 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Further very early notes on Lydbrook occur in a survey of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which streams right into the River Wye) developed, for part of its travels, the limit between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and also 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 understood on modern maps as Little Hough Brook. Provided in the 1282 entrances of those who had grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the church of Bikenore, and also under the parish 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, for this reason his addition in the documents for both churches. On top of that, under the entrance for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Thus the advancement of Lydbrook began at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the creek running its entire 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 sectors with your houses as an advancement right into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which gave the water needed for sector and domestic usage. The development of the encroachment, continued right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which ended up being known as Upper Lydbrook and also Joys Green. The village only ended up being an area of population of any kind of size 17th century onwards, yet grew steadily given that to continue to be fixed for virtually a century as well as a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 in between the 1850s and the beginning of the 1990s. However, from the start of the 1990s the area has begun to slowly depopulate. One call to popularity of the current past, which now is the good news is no longer real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean recalls that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest possible occurrence of consumption in England.