Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a local government area in the English area of Gloucestershire. It gets on the north west side of the Forest of Dean's present legal boundary proper. It comprises the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and also Worrall Hill. It has a mile and a half lengthy major road, considered to be the longest primary street 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 east at Ruardean. The total parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. Today community of Lydbrook appears 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 very early notes on Lydbrook occur in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a brook, which moves into the River Wye) formed, for part of its journeys, the boundary between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and Rywardin (Ruardean). Today many maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, and also Just how Brook which signs up with the Lyd is known on contemporary maps as Little Hough Brook. Provided in the 1282 access of those who had grown land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), shows up under the church of Bikenore, as well as under the church of Rywardin. Rather than being two separate pieces of land in varying localities, it was possibly that William's land will certainly have included the creek, for this reason his inclusion in the documents for both churches. On top of that, under the access for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Therefore the advancement of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the creek running its entire length - the 'loud brook' or lud creek to come to be Lyd Brook. The town established as a site for the local iron and coal markets with your homes as an infringement right into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which offered the water required for sector and also domestic use. The growth of the infringement, continued into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the area which became referred to as Upper Lydbrook and Joys Green. The town only came to be a place of population of any type of size 17th century onwards, but grew continuously given that to remain static for virtually a century and also a half at a population of about 2,500 in between the 1850s and also the start of the 1990s. However, from the beginning of the 1990s the neighborhood has begun to slowly depopulate. One contact us to fame of the current past, which now is luckily no more real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his publication on the Forest of Dean recalls that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest incidence of consumption in England.