Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a large village and civil parish situated in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Functioning as the management resources of the New Forest, it is a prominent vacationer attraction, with several independent shops, art galleries, cafés, galleries, pubs as well as resorts. The nearby city is Southampton, about nine miles (14 kilometres) to the north-east. Since 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, enhancing to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name derives from an Old English name, comprising the words lind (lime tree) and hyrst (wooded hill). Called the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The first 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 contains a fresco by Lord Leighton and stained-glass windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and others; Alice Liddell, the ideas for Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is buried there. Glasshayes House (the former Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only surviving instance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's building testing, as well as 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.