Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a big village as well as civil parish located in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Serving as the management resources of the New Forest, it is a prominent tourist destination, with many independent stores, art galleries, cafés, galleries, bars as well as resorts. The closest city is Southampton, regarding nine miles (14 km) to the north-east. Since 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, boosting to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name derives from an Old English name, consisting of 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 very first mention 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 integrated in the 1860s, and has 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 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 enduring instance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's architectural experimentation, 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.
