Lyndhurst is a big town as well as civil parish positioned in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Serving as the management funding of the New Forest, it is a prominent visitor attraction, with numerous independent stores, art galleries, cafés, galleries, pubs and resorts. The nearby city is Southampton, regarding nine miles (14 kilometres) to the north-east. As of 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, enhancing to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name stems from an Old English name, making up words lind (lime tree) and hyrst (wooded hill). Known as the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The 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 built in the 1860s, and also includes 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 motivation for Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is hidden there. Glasshayes House (the previous Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only surviving instance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's building testing, as well as neighborhood folklore records Lyndhurst as the website of a Dragon-slaying, and as being haunted by the ghost of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole.