Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a huge town and also civil parish positioned in the New Forest National Forest in Hampshire, England. Functioning as the administrative funding of the New Forest, it is a prominent traveler destination, with numerous independent stores, art galleries, cafés, museums, clubs and hotels. The closest city is Southampton, about 9 miles (14 km) 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, making up words lind (lime tree) and hyrst (wooded hill). Called 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 also consists of a fresco by Lord Leighton as well as stained-glass home windows by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and others; Alice Liddell, the motivation 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 testing, and regional folklore 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.
