Lyndhurst /lɪndhərst/ is a large village and civil parish situated in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England, about nine miles (14 km) south-west of Southampton.

It is also a popular tourist attraction, with many independent shops, art galleries, cafés, museums, pubs and hotels.

Glasshayes House (the former Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only surviving example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's architectural experimentation, and local 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.

[8] In 1299 it covered an area of 500 acres (202 ha), the profits from the honey gathered there amounting to 2 shillings per annum.

The local headquarters of the Forestry Commission, the body that handles the maintenance of the softwood plantations, forest roads and paths, and controlling the spread of invasive plants, such as rhododendrons and gorse is also based in the King's House.

The church of St. Michael and All Angels is a major landmark, built of many different colours of brick, on one of the highest points in the village.

Glasshayes House (also known as the Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is a Georgian "Gothick" villa, and after its 1912 alterations is the only surviving example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's forays into architecture.

[7] In the reign of Edward I an order was given for "twenty oaks to make laths for the use of the queen's manor-house at Lyndhurst.

"[7] This house was probably superseded by the hunting lodge built at Lyndhurst in the 14th century, which received frequent royal visits, and for which there are many records relating to the repair and enlargement.

[21] The interior has yellow, white and red exposed brickwork, and a nave roof decorated with life-size supporting angels.

[19] The church contains a fresco by Frederick Leighton showing the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, with biblical characters said to be modelled on local people.

The church also contains stained glass windows designed by William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Charles Kempe.

[20] There is also a very fine, small Catholic Church of the Assumption and St Edward the Confessor, built by Sir Arthur Blomfield between 1894 and 1896 as a memorial to Marie-Louise Souberbielle.

To kill the dragon, a valiant knight (usually named Berkeley) built a hide, and with two dogs lay in wait.

[25] The fight raged throughout the forest, with the dragon finally dying outside Lyndhurst, its corpse turning into a great hill (now known as Boltons Bench).

It has long been mooted that the solution to Lyndhurst's traffic problem is to build a bypass through the surrounding National Park forest land.

[27] In 2006 Lyndhurst Parish Council again called for a bypass,[28] and proposed that the road followed the route suggested in 1983 but with a 400-metre-long (1,300 ft) cut-and-cover tunnel.