The Naours underground city is a 2-mile-long complex of tunnels with hundreds of chambers dug out over the centuries in the chalky Picardy plateau. During the Middle Ages villagers took shelter in the caves from marauding armies crisscrossing northern France.
By the 18th century the quarry's entrance was blocked off and forgotten. In 1887, a local priest rediscovered the site and it eventually became a tourist attraction. That is most-likely the reason James Cockburn and the nearly 2000 others were there. A little break from fighting..
--DaCoot
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