Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a huge village and civil parish situated in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Functioning as the administrative resources of the New Forest, it is a popular tourist destination, with numerous independent shops, art galleries, cafés, galleries, pubs and hotels. The local city is Southampton, regarding nine miles (14 kilometres) to the north-east. Since 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, boosting to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name derives from an Old English name, consisting of words lind (lime tree) and also hyrst (wooded hill). Referred to as the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The initial reference of Lyndhurst was in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the name 'Linhest'. The Court of Verderers beings in the Queens House in Lyndhurst. The church of St. Michael and All Angels was integrated in the 1860s, as well as contains a fresco by Lord Leighton and also stained-glass home windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones as well as others; Alice Liddell, the ideas for Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is buried there. Glasshayes House (the previous Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only surviving instance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's architectural experimentation, and regional mythology records Lyndhurst as the website of a Dragon-slaying, and also as being haunted by the ghost of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole.