Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a huge village and civil parish located in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Serving as the management capital of the New Forest, it is a prominent visitor destination, with several independent stores, art galleries, cafés, museums, clubs and also hotels. The closest city is Southampton, about 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 derives from an Old English name, making up words lind (lime tree) and also hyrst (wooded hill). Known as the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The initial reference of Lyndhurst remained in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the name 'Linhest'. The Court of Verderers beings in the Queens House in Lyndhurst. The church of St. Michael and All Angels was constructed in the 1860s, as well as has a fresco by Lord Leighton as well as stained-glass windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and also others; Alice Liddell, the ideas for Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is hidden there. Glasshayes House (the former Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only enduring example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's building trial and error, as well as neighborhood folklore records Lyndhurst as the site of a Dragon-slaying, and also as being haunted by the ghost of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole.
