Lyndhurst is a large village and also civil parish located in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Working as the administrative capital of the New Forest, it is a preferred visitor destination, with many independent shops, art galleries, cafés, galleries, bars and also resorts. The nearby city is Southampton, regarding nine miles (14 kilometres) to the north-east. As of 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, increasing to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name derives from an Old English name, comprising words lind (lime tree) as well as hyrst (wooded hill). Called the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The very first reference of Lyndhurst remained 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, and also includes a fresco by Lord Leighton and stained-glass home 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 previous Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only making it through instance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's building testing, as well as 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.