Tilloy-lès-Conty

Tilloy-lès-Conty
Tilloy-lès-Conty
Part of Ô-de-Selle
	Chateau of Tilloy-lès-Conty
	Location of Tilloy-lès-Conty
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	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)	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

The commune is situated 10 miles (16 km) south southwest of Amiens, on the D8e road

Population

Historical population of Tilloy-lès-Conty
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
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

The seventeenth century church of Notre-Dame

Château de Tilloy-lès-Conty

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

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.

References

^ 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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[pop2019-1] Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE

[2] Arrêté préfectoral 7 December 2018 (in French)

[3] 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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