Tilloy-lès-Conty

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]

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
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  (2022)[1]	253
• Density	39.9/km2 (103/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.

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.

See also

• Communes of the Somme department