Lyndhurst is a large town and civil parish located in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Working as the management capital of the New Forest, it is a popular traveler destination, with numerous independent stores, art galleries, cafés, museums, pubs as well as hotels. The nearby city is Southampton, about 9 miles (14 kilometres) 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 the words lind (lime tree) and also hyrst (wooded hill). Referred to as the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The initial 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 constructed in the 1860s, and also contains a fresco by Lord Leighton and stained-glass windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and others; Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is buried there. Glasshayes House (the previous Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only enduring instance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's architectural experimentation, and also local folklore records Lyndhurst as the site of a Dragon-slaying, and as being haunted by the ghost of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole.