Tilloy-lès-Conty

Tilloy-lès-Conty
Tilloy-lès-Conty
	Chateau of Tilloy-lès-Conty
	Location of Tilloy-lès-Conty
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Somme
Arrondissement	Amiens
Canton	Conty
Intercommunality	Canton of Conty
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Martine Queval
Area 1	6.34 km2 (2.45 sq mi)
Population (2006)	250
• Density	39/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	80761 /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 is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.

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.^[1] 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

INSEE

^ 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.

External links

Tilloy-lès-Conty on the Quid website Template:Fr

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[1] 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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