Lyndhurst is a huge town and also civil parish situated in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Working as the administrative capital of the New Forest, it is a popular traveler attraction, with many independent stores, art galleries, cafés, museums, bars and also hotels. The closest city is Southampton, regarding nine miles (14 kilometres) to the north-east. As of 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, increasing to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name derives from an Old English name, making up 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 reference of Lyndhurst remained in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the name 'Linhest'. The Court of Verderers beings in the Queens House in Lyndhurst. The church of St. Michael and All Angels was constructed in the 1860s, and also consists of a fresco by Lord Leighton as well as stained-glass windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and also 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 testing, as well as neighborhood mythology records 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.