Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a big village as well as civil parish located in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Functioning as the management resources of the New Forest, it is a preferred tourist attraction, with several independent shops, art galleries, cafés, galleries, clubs and also resorts. The nearest city is Southampton, concerning nine miles (14 kilometres) to the north-east. As of 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, enhancing to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name stems from an Old English name, making up words lind (lime tree) and hyrst (wooded hill). Called the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The first mention of Lyndhurst remained 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 built in the 1860s, and contains a fresco by Lord Leighton and stained-glass windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and also others; Alice Liddell, the ideas for Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is hidden there. Glasshayes House (the former Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only enduring example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's architectural testing, as well as regional mythology documents 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.