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 Best Western The Crown Hotel 
High St, Lyndhurst
User review: 7.45. From GBP 45.00
Ormonde House Hotel
Southampton Road, Lyndhurst, Hampshire
User review: 8.42. From GBP 60.00
Lyndhurst Park Hotel
78 High St, Lyndhurst
User review: 7.10. From GBP 60.00
Lyndhurst House
35 Romsey Road, Lyndhurst
User review: 8.37. From GBP 70.00
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Lyndhurst hotels - About Lyndhurst
Coordinates: 50°52′N 1°35′W / 50.87, -1.58
Lyndhurst is the largest village within the New Forest, Hampshire, England. It is often called the "Capital of the New Forest" and is a popular tourist location with many shops, cafés, pubs and hotels. Lyndhurst is also home to the New Forest Museum. The nearest city is Southampton located around nine miles (14 km) to the north-east. In 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973 people .
Alice Liddell, also known as Alice Hargreaves, the inspiration for Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, lived in and around Lyndhurst after her marriage to Reginald Hargreaves, and is buried in the graveyard of the church of St. Michael & All Angels, Lyndhurst.
The church itself is a major landmark, being built of many different colours of brick, on one of the highest points in the village. The church was built in the 1860s, and contains an important fresco by Lord Leighton and stained-glass by Charles Kempe, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and others. Other major landmarks include Bolton's Bench, a picturesque hill to the east of the village; and a row of much photographed thatched cottages on the road to the neighbouring hamlet of Emery Down.
The village is the administrative capital of the New Forest, with the district council based in the village. The Court of Verderers sits in the Queens House in Lyndhurst. The 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 based in Queen's House in the Village.
The headquarters of the privately owned British chemicals company INEOS are located in the village. Also situated towards the outskirts of the village is Foxlease the GirlGuiding UK association headquarters Foxlease, a training and activity centre of Girlguiding UK since 1922, and scene of several internationally important Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting events, is near the village.
Source: CIA Factbook, Wikipedia
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