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Description
It's called 'The Hermitage' and is thought to have been hewn out of a single rock in 1790 (inscribed above the doorway)
reputedly by a George Chubb whose initials are also carved above the door.

It can be found in Sneaton Forest, North Yorkshire.

Sneaton Forest forms one of the seven main blocks of the North Riding Forest Park. This part of the North York Moors was once densely wooded with a wide variety of broadleaved trees cloaking the sheltered valley. Several of these native species survive from the earliest days of settlement in the area, most probably during the Bronze Age.

Trees were later felled for farming and by the Middle Ages large flocks of sheep, many of them owned by the monasteries, grazed the hills, preventing regrowth and regeneration of the forest. Gradually rough moorland took the place of the trees, changing the appearance and character of the area so dramatically that today it is hard to believe these open upland tracts were once thickly afforested. Among the tree species to be found here are lodgepole pine and Sitka spruce. Timber from Sneaton Forest goes mainly for paper pulp and chipboard.

Description
It's called 'The Hermitage' and is thought to have been hewn out of a single rock in 1790 (inscribed above the doorway)
reputedly by a George Chubb whose initials are also carved above the door.

It can be found in Sneaton Forest, North Yorkshire.

Sneaton Forest forms one of the seven main blocks of the North Riding Forest Park. This part of the North York Moors was once densely wooded with a wide variety of broadleaved trees cloaking the sheltered valley. Several of these native species survive from the earliest days of settlement in the area, most probably during the Bronze Age.

Trees were later felled for farming and by the Middle Ages large flocks of sheep, many of them owned by the monasteries, grazed the hills, preventing regrowth and regeneration of the forest. Gradually rough moorland took the place of the trees, changing the appearance and character of the area so dramatically that today it is hard to believe these open upland tracts were once thickly afforested. Among the tree species to be found here are lodgepole pine and Sitka spruce. Timber from Sneaton Forest goes mainly for paper pulp and chipboard.