Lyndhurst is a big village and civil parish positioned in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Serving as the management capital of the New Forest, it is a prominent tourist attraction, with several independent shops, art galleries, cafés, galleries, bars and also hotels. The closest city is Southampton, about 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) and also hyrst (wooded hill). Referred to as the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The first mention 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, and has a fresco by Lord Leighton as well as stained-glass home 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 previous Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only surviving example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's building 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.