Lyndhurst is a large town as well as civil parish situated in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Acting as the management capital of the New Forest, it is a popular vacationer attraction, with several independent stores, art galleries, cafés, galleries, bars and also hotels. The nearby city is Southampton, concerning nine miles (14 kilometres) to the north-east. Since 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, boosting to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name derives from an Old English name, comprising words lind (lime tree) as well as hyrst (wooded hill). Referred to as 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 includes a fresco by Lord Leighton and stained-glass home windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and also 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 enduring example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's building trial and error, and regional mythology 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.