Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is a large village and civil parish located in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Functioning as the administrative capital of the New Forest, it is a popular traveler attraction, with many independent stores, art galleries, cafés, galleries, clubs and also hotels. The nearest city is Southampton, regarding 9 miles (14 kilometres) to the north-east. Since 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, boosting to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name originates from an Old English name, comprising words lind (lime tree) and hyrst (wooded hill). Known as the "Capital of the New Forest", Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council. The initial mention of Lyndhurst was 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 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 as well as others; Alice Liddell, the motivation for Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is buried there. Glasshayes House (the former Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only making it through example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's building experimentation, as well as neighborhood folklore documents 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.
