Hardwood Doors in Lyndhurst

Lyndhurst

Lyndhurst is a large town and civil parish situated in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Functioning as the management funding of the New Forest, it is a prominent tourist destination, with numerous independent shops, art galleries, cafés, museums, pubs and also hotels. The nearby city is Southampton, concerning 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, making up the words lind (lime tree) and also hyrst (wooded hill). Known as the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The initial 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 constructed in the 1860s, and also consists of 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 former Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only surviving instance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's building trial and error, as well as neighborhood folklore documents Lyndhurst as the website of a Dragon-slaying, and as being haunted by the ghost of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole.