Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a big village and also civil parish located in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Acting as the management capital of the New Forest, it is a popular vacationer destination, with lots of independent shops, art galleries, cafés, museums, clubs and hotels. The nearest city is Southampton, concerning 9 miles (14 kilometres) to the north-east. Since 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, enhancing to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name derives from an Old English name, consisting of 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 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 integrated in the 1860s, and includes a fresco by Lord Leighton as well as 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 hidden 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 local mythology 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.