Lyndhurst is a big village and civil parish positioned in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Functioning as the administrative resources of the New Forest, it is a popular visitor destination, with several independent shops, art galleries, cafés, galleries, pubs and also resorts. The local city is Southampton, about nine miles (14 km) to the north-east. Since 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, enhancing 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). Called 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 integrated in the 1860s, as well as contains 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 previous Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only making it through instance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's building testing, as well as local 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.