Tilloy-lès-Conty

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Tilloy-lès-Conty
Part of Ô-de-Selle
Chateau of Tilloy-lès-Conty
Chateau of Tilloy-lès-Conty
Location of Tilloy-lès-Conty
Tilloy-lès-Conty is located in France
Tilloy-lès-Conty
Tilloy-lès-Conty
Coordinates: 49°45′18″N 2°10′39″E / 49.755°N 2.1775°E / 49.755; 2.1775Coordinates: 49°45′18″N 2°10′39″E / 49.755°N 2.1775°E / 49.755; 2.1775
CountryFrance
RegionHauts-de-France
DepartmentSomme
ArrondissementAmiens
CantonAilly-sur-Noye
CommuneÔ-de-Selle
Area
1
6.34 km2 (2.45 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[1]
247
 • Density39/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code
80160
Elevation48–135 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 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
Year1962196819751982199019992006
Population214217176196220228250
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.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017, 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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