Where no-one goes

It's 1817;
Oliver, a young, British man lives in a mansion, deep in a dense forest in England; unafraid, and secluded from the rest of modern society. But legends have begun to circulate around far towns surrounding the forest; they say the man isn't alone in there, for people always seem to disappear without a trace when they wander into it; leaving nothing behind them.
They say the forest is cursed.