Travel Guide Caumont

Located close to La Bouille, Caumont is a small village on the Seine that everyone knows without knowing. It was here, in quarries established within the caves of the village, that the stones used for the construction of most of the department's major heritage monuments were drawn. The cathedral of Rouen, the Abbey Saint-Georges de Boscherville, the one of Jumièges and our Lady of Le Havre, for example, were made with this rock. The exploitation of the quarries brought the village to the nineteenth century.During the Second World War, the Germans wanted to build a troglodytic factory in the caves, which they used as bunkers, to make gas to fuel their V 2 rocket. This great project started towards the end of the conflict was ultimately not completed.Quarries began a third life with a mushroom in the 1960 s. If they have always enjoyed the lovers of natural sites and adventurous spirits, caves are now closed to the public, but can still be explored by the speleologists.