Lyndhurst is a large village as well as civil parish located in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Acting as the management capital of the New Forest, it is a popular visitor attraction, with numerous independent shops, art galleries, cafés, museums, bars as well as resorts. The nearby city is Southampton, about nine miles (14 km) to the north-east. As of 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, raising to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name stems from an Old English name, making up the words lind (lime tree) and hyrst (wooded hill). Called 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 beings in the Queens House in Lyndhurst. The church of St. Michael and All Angels was integrated in the 1860s, as well as has a fresco by Lord Leighton and also stained-glass windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and 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 surviving example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's building testing, and also neighborhood folklore 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.