Lydbrook is a civil church in the Forest of Dean, a local government area in the English area of Gloucestershire. It is on the north west edge of the Forest of Dean's present lawful boundary proper. It consists of the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and Worrall Hill. It has a mile and also a half long primary street, reputed to be the lengthiest primary street of any village in England. Lydbrook falls in 'Lydbrook and also Ruardean' electoral ward. This ward begins in the south eastern at Lydbrook as well as 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 beginnings in the 13th century. In a document of a sale of trees in 1256, reference is made from 'the Mill of Lydbrook'. Even more early notes on Lydbrook happen in a study of the Forest of Dean in 1282. The Lyd (a creek, which moves right into the River Wye) developed, for part of its journeys, the border in between the Bailiwicks of Bikenore (English Bicknor) as well as Rywardin (Ruardean). Today lots of maps call the Lyd, Hough Brook, or Great Hough Brook, as well as How Brook which joins the Lyd is understood on modern-day maps as Little Hough Brook. Provided in the 1282 entries of those who possessed cultivated land, William of Ludebrok (Lydbrook), appears under the church of Bikenore, and also under the parish of Rywardin. Instead of being 2 different tracts in differing areas, it was possibly that William's land will have included the brook, thus his incorporation in the documents for both churches. On top of that, under the entry for Bikenore is recorded, Robert of Stoufeld (Stowfield). Thus the growth of Lydbrook began at Lower Lydbrook. The town takes its name from the creek running its entire length - the 'loud brook' or lud brook to become Lyd Brook. The village created as a site for the local iron and also coal markets with the houses as an encroachment into the Forest mapping the Lyd brook which offered the water required for sector and domestic usage. The advancement of the advancement, continued right into the Bailiwick of Magna Dean (Mitcheldean), the location which ended up being referred to as Upper Lydbrook and Joys Green. The village only came to be a location of population of any kind of size 17th century onwards, but grew gradually since to remain fixed for virtually a century and a fifty percent at a population of about 2,500 in between the 1850s and the beginning of the 1990s. Nonetheless, from the start of the 1990s the community has begun to slowly depopulate. One call to fame of the current past, which currently is thankfully no longer real, is that Humphrey Phelps, in his book on the Forest of Dean recalls that in the 1950s Lydbrook had the highest possible incidence of tuberculosis in England.