Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a large town as well as civil parish located in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Serving as the administrative resources of the New Forest, it is a preferred visitor destination, with lots of independent shops, art galleries, cafés, museums, pubs as well as hotels. The closest city is Southampton, concerning 9 miles (14 kilometres) to the north-east. Since 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, increasing 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 very first mention 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 consists of a fresco by Lord Leighton and stained-glass 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 making it through instance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's building experimentation, and local mythology documents Lyndhurst as the website of a Dragon-slaying, and as being haunted by the ghost of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole.