Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a big village as well as civil parish located in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Functioning as the management funding of the New Forest, it is a preferred visitor destination, with numerous independent shops, art galleries, cafés, galleries, clubs and hotels. 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 stems from an Old English name, consisting of 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 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 built in the 1860s, as well as contains a fresco by Lord Leighton and stained-glass home windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and others; Alice Liddell, the ideas 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 instance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's architectural trial and error, and also neighborhood folklore 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.
