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TIL from 1810 to 1840 tobacco merchant & philanthropist Joseph Williamson funded excavations of an extensive network of tunnels & chasms, the purpose of which is still not fully clear. The tunnels were later used as waste pits until they were "rediscovered" in 1995.

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