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Lyndhurst / l ɪ n d h ər s t / 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. Known as the "Capital of the New Forest", [ 2 ] Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council and Court of Verderers .
Minstead is a small village and civil parish in the New Forest, Hampshire, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Lyndhurst. There is a shop and a pub, the Trusty Servant . Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 's grave is under a large tree at the back of the 13th-century All Saints' church.
It heads south through the New Forest to the large village of Lyndhurst. On account of the A337 being one of only a few main roads into the New Forest, it is frequently congested . In Lyndhurst the A337 meets the A35 road , and rings Lyndhurst village centre as a large roundabout .
New Forest is a local government district in Hampshire, England. Its council is based in Lyndhurst , although the largest town is Totton . The district also includes the towns of Fordingbridge , Lymington , New Milton and Ringwood .
Ashurst; Bank; Bartley; Beaulieu; Beaulieu Heath; Beaulieu Road railway station; Black Gutter Bottom; Blackwater Arboretum; Bolderwood; Bramshaw; Brockenhurst; Brook
The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire. It was proclaimed a royal forest by William the Conqueror , featuring in the Domesday Book .
[10] The famous New Forest "snakecatcher" Brusher Mills was reported living in an old charcoal burner's hut by the boundary of nearby Gritnam Wood in around 1895. [ 11 ] The Liberal MP , Robert John Price , was a resident of Bank, [ 12 ] as was the Liberal M.P. John Fletcher Moulton , [ 13 ] who, when he entered the House of Lords in 1912, took ...
Tradition holds that the pub in nearby Boldre, the Red Lion, is named after a creature of local folklore, the Stratford Lyon.Supposedly a giant red lion with a wild mane, yellow eyes, large teeth, and huge stag-like antlers, pulled from the ground by John Stratford (verderer) in a wood in South Baddesley named Haresmede in the late 14th or early 15th century.