Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a large village and civil parish situated in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Functioning as the management funding of the New Forest, it is a popular traveler attraction, with many independent stores, art galleries, cafés, museums, clubs and also resorts. The nearby city is Southampton, regarding 9 miles (14 kilometres) to the north-east. Since 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, increasing to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name stems from an Old English name, making up the words lind (lime tree) and hyrst (wooded hill). Called 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 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 hidden there. Glasshayes House (the former Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only surviving instance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's architectural experimentation, and local folklore records Lyndhurst as the site of a Dragon-slaying, and as being haunted by the ghost of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole.
