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Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a big village and civil parish situated in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Acting as the management resources of the New Forest, it is a preferred visitor destination, with lots of independent shops, art galleries, cafés, galleries, bars as well as hotels. The nearest city is Southampton, about 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, making up 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 remained in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the name 'Linhest'. The Court of Verderers sits in the Queens House in Lyndhurst. The church of St. Michael and All Angels was built in the 1860s, and consists of a fresco by Lord Leighton and stained-glass 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 testing, and also neighborhood mythology records Lyndhurst as the website of a Dragon-slaying, and as being haunted by the ghost of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole.