Lyndhurst is a huge town as well as civil parish situated in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Functioning as the administrative funding of the New Forest, it is a prominent traveler destination, with many independent shops, art galleries, cafés, museums, bars and also resorts. The local city is Southampton, concerning nine miles (14 km) to the north-east. As of 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, boosting 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). Referred to as the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The very first mention of Lyndhurst was 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 as well as stained-glass windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and also others; Alice Liddell, the motivation for Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is buried there. Glasshayes House (the former Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only enduring example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's building testing, and also neighborhood folklore documents Lyndhurst as the site of a Dragon-slaying, and as being haunted by the ghost of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole.