Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a big village and civil parish situated in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Serving as the management resources of the New Forest, it is a popular visitor attraction, with numerous independent shops, art galleries, cafés, galleries, pubs as well as resorts. The local city is Southampton, concerning nine 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, comprising words lind (lime tree) and also hyrst (wooded hill). Called the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The very first reference 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 integrated in the 1860s, and also contains 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 former Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only surviving example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's building testing, and neighborhood mythology documents Lyndhurst as the website of a Dragon-slaying, and also as being haunted by the ghost of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole.
