Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a big town and also civil parish positioned in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Working as the administrative resources of the New Forest, it is a preferred traveler destination, with lots of independent stores, art galleries, cafés, museums, pubs and hotels. The nearest city is Southampton, regarding 9 miles (14 kilometres) to the north-east. Since 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, increasing to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name originates from an Old English name, making up the words lind (lime tree) as well as hyrst (wooded hill). Known as the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The first 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, as well as has a fresco by Lord Leighton and stained-glass home windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones as well as 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 surviving example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's architectural experimentation, as well as regional 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.