Lyndhurst is a big village as well as civil parish located in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Serving as the management capital of the New Forest, it is a preferred traveler attraction, with lots of independent shops, art galleries, cafés, galleries, clubs as well as resorts. The local city is Southampton, concerning 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 originates from an Old English name, consisting of words lind (lime tree) and also hyrst (wooded hill). Called 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 sits in the Queens House in Lyndhurst. The church of St. Michael and All Angels was constructed in the 1860s, and contains a fresco by Lord Leighton as well as 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 previous Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only making it through instance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's architectural experimentation, as well as regional mythology documents Lyndhurst as the site of a Dragon-slaying, and as being haunted by the ghost of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole.