Lydbrook is a civil church 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 limit correct. It consists of the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and also Worrall Hill. It has a mile and a half lengthy primary street, reputed to be the longest primary street of any kind of village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook as well as Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward begins in the south eastern at Lydbrook and extends to the north east at Ruardean. The complete parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. Today neighborhood of Lydbrook seems to have had its starts in the 13th century. In a record of a sale of trees in 1256, mention is constructed from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Further very early notes on Lydbrook happen in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which streams right into the River Wye) created, for part of its travels, the border 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 also Just how Brook which signs up with the Lyd is recognized on modern-day maps as Little Hough Brook. Provided in the 1282 entrances of those that possessed cultivated land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the parish of Bikenore, and also under the church of Rywardin. Rather than being 2 separate parcels in varying areas, it was most likely that William's land will certainly have included the brook, therefore his inclusion in the records for both churches. Furthermore, under the access for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Hence the development of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the brook running its whole size - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to end up being Lyd Brook. The town developed as a site for the local iron as well as coal markets with your houses as an advancement right into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which supplied the water required for sector and domestic use. The growth of the encroachment, proceeded into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the location which became called Upper Lydbrook and Joys Green. The village only came to be a location of population of any type of dimension 17th century onwards, yet grew gradually because to remain fixed for nearly a century and a half at a population of about 2,500 in between the 1850s and the beginning of the 1990s. However, from the get go of the 1990s the neighborhood has actually begun to slowly depopulate. One call to fame of the current past, which currently is the good news is no longer real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean remembers that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the greatest occurrence of consumption in England.