Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a large town and also civil parish located in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Acting as the administrative funding of the New Forest, it is a preferred tourist attraction, with several independent stores, art galleries, cafés, museums, bars as well as resorts. The local city is Southampton, regarding nine miles (14 kilometres) to the north-east. Since 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, raising to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name stems from an Old English name, consisting of the words lind (lime tree) as well as hyrst (wooded hill). Called the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The very first reference 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 has a fresco by Lord Leighton and stained-glass windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and also 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 enduring instance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's architectural trial and error, and neighborhood mythology documents Lyndhurst as the site of a Dragon-slaying, and as being haunted by the ghost of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole.