Lyndhurst is a big village as well as civil parish positioned in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Working as the management funding of the New Forest, it is a prominent vacationer attraction, with several independent shops, art galleries, cafés, galleries, bars as well as resorts. The nearest city is Southampton, regarding 9 miles (14 kilometres) to the north-east. As of 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, increasing to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name derives from an Old English name, consisting of the 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 integrated in the 1860s, and contains a fresco by Lord Leighton as well as 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 making it through example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's architectural trial and error, and local 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.