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 existing lawful border appropriate. It comprises the areas of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green as well as Worrall Hill. It has a mile as well as a half long major street, considered to be the lengthiest major street of any kind of town in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward starts in the south east at Lydbrook and extends to the north eastern at Ruardean. The overall parish population taken at the 2011 census was 4,819. Today neighborhood of Lydbrook seems 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'. Additionally 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 travels, the limit between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) and Rywardin (Ruardean). Today numerous maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, and How Brook which signs up with the Lyd is recognized on modern maps as Little Hough Brook. Noted in the 1282 access of those that possessed cultivated land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), shows up under the parish of Bikenore, as well as under the parish of Rywardin. Rather than being 2 separate pieces of land in differing areas, it was most likely that William's land will certainly have included the creek, therefore his incorporation in the documents for both churches. On top of that, under the entrance for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Hence the growth of Lydbrook started at Lower Lydbrook. The village takes its name from the brook running its whole length - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to come to be Lyd Brook. The town established as a site for the regional iron and also coal industries with your houses as an advancement right into the Forest tracing the Lyd brook which offered the water needed for market as well as residential usage. The growth of the advancement, proceeded right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the location which became called Upper Lydbrook and also Joys Green. The town just ended up being an area of population of any type of size 17th century onwards, but expanded steadily considering that to remain static for nearly a century and also a half at a population of about 2,500 between the 1850s and the beginning of the 1990s. However, from the beginning of the 1990s the neighborhood has actually begun to gradually depopulate. One contact us to fame of the recent past, which currently is fortunately no longer true, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean recalls that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the greatest incidence of consumption in England.