Lyndhurst is a big town and civil parish situated in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Serving as the management funding of the New Forest, it is a preferred vacationer attraction, with many independent shops, art galleries, cafés, museums, pubs as well as hotels. The closest city is Southampton, concerning 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, consisting of the words lind (lime tree) and hyrst (wooded hill). Referred to as the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The first 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 windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones as well as others; Alice Liddell, the ideas for Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is hidden there. Glasshayes House (the former Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only surviving example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's building trial and error, and local 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.