Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a large village as well as civil parish situated in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Acting as the management resources of the New Forest, it is a prominent traveler destination, with numerous independent shops, art galleries, cafés, museums, pubs and also hotels. The closest city is Southampton, about nine miles (14 km) to the north-east. Since 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, boosting to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name stems from an Old English name, consisting of the 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 first mention of Lyndhurst was 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 integrated in the 1860s, as well as consists of a fresco by Lord Leighton and stained-glass home windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones as well as others; Alice Liddell, the motivation 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, and regional folklore documents Lyndhurst as the site of a Dragon-slaying, and also as being haunted by the ghost of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole.