Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a huge village and also civil parish situated in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Serving as the administrative capital of the New Forest, it is a popular vacationer destination, with many independent stores, art galleries, cafés, galleries, clubs as well as hotels. The local city is Southampton, regarding 9 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 originates from an Old English name, comprising the words lind (lime tree) and also 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 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 built in the 1860s, as well as consists of a fresco by Lord Leighton and also stained-glass windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and 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 enduring example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's building testing, as well as neighborhood mythology 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.