Tilloy-lès-Conty
Tilloy-lès-Conty | |
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Part of Ô-de-Selle | |
![]() Chateau of Tilloy-lès-Conty | |
Coordinates: 49°45′18″N 2°10′39″E / 49.755°N 2.1775°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Hauts-de-France |
Department | Somme |
Arrondissement | Amiens |
Canton | Ailly-sur-Noye |
Commune | Ô-de-Selle |
Area 1 | 6.34 km2 (2.45 sq mi) |
Population (2019)[1] | 244 |
• Density | 38/km2 (100/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal code | 80160 |
Elevation | 48–135 m (157–443 ft) (avg. 105 m or 344 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Tilloy-lès-Conty (French pronunciation: [tilwa lɛ kɔ̃ti], literally Tilloy near Conty) is a former commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Ô-de-Selle.[2]
Geography
[edit]The commune is situated 10 miles (16 km) south southwest of Amiens, on the D8e road
Population
[edit]Year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 |
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Population | 214 | 217 | 176 | 196 | 220 | 228 | 250 |
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once. |
Places of interest
[edit]- The seventeenth century church of Notre-Dame
Château de Tilloy-lès-Conty
[edit]This is the ancient fief of the seigneurs of the Croy family, restored as a country house at the end of the 17th century.[3] It consists of a garden and a 9-hectare park, with a little English garden filled with 165 varieties of roses.
The gardens of the Pic-Vert
[edit]A 6000-square-metre garden built by Michel Driencourt around a large 19th-century Picardie farm, in four sections:
- A shady garden with old Japanese cherry trees
- An inner courtyard
- An old orchard and vegetable garden
- A conservatory of ancient varieties
2500 varieties of shrubs and perennials are on show with collections of delphinium, iris, poppies, magnolia, hydrangea and Japanese maples.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
- ^ Arrêté préfectoral 7 December 2018 (in French)
- ^ Le château (façades et toitures), le hall d' entrée, ses deux paliers et escaliers, ainsi que son parc sont classés en totalité (cad. AD 10, 50 à 52, 72) : inscription par arrêté du 19 juillet 2004.
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