Lyndhurst is a big town and also civil parish positioned in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Acting as the management capital of the New Forest, it is a popular vacationer destination, with several independent shops, art galleries, cafés, galleries, pubs and also resorts. The closest city is Southampton, about 9 miles (14 km) 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 words lind (lime tree) as well as hyrst (wooded hill). Called the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The initial reference 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 constructed in the 1860s, as well as contains a fresco by Lord Leighton and stained-glass home windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and others; Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is hidden there. Glasshayes House (the previous Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only making it through example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's architectural trial and error, as well as neighborhood mythology 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.