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Tilloy lès Conty

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Country
  
Department
  
Intercommunality
  
Area
  
6.34 km²

Arrondissement
  
Region
  
Canton
  
Conty

Population (2006)
  
250

Local time
  
Saturday 2:52 AM

Tilloy-lès-Conty

Weather
  
11°C, Wind S at 10 km/h, 80% Humidity

Tilloy-lès-Conty is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Contents

Map of 80160 Tilloy-l%C3%A8s-Conty, France

Geography

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

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. 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

    Tilloy-lès-Conty Wikipedia


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