Lyndhurst is a large village and civil parish situated in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Working as the management funding of the New Forest, it is a preferred visitor attraction, with many independent stores, art galleries, cafés, galleries, bars and resorts. The nearby city is Southampton, concerning 9 miles (14 km) to the north-east. Since 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, raising to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name stems from an Old English name, consisting of the words lind (lime tree) and hyrst (wooded hill). Called the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The initial 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 built in the 1860s, and contains a fresco by Lord Leighton and stained-glass home windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and also 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 making it through instance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's architectural trial and error, as well as 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.