Tilloloy Explained

Tilloloy should not be confused with Fresnes-Tilloloy.

Tilloloy
Commune Status:	Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:	Blason-Tilloloy.svg
Arrondissement:	Montdidier
Canton:	Roye
Insee:	80759
Postal Code:	80700
Mayor:	Gérard Comyn^[1]
Term:	2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:	CC Grand Roye
Coordinates:	49.6439°N 2.7486°W
Elevation M:	110
Elevation Min M:	87
Elevation Max M:	109
Area Km2:	6.37

Tilloloy is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography

Tilloloy is situated in the east of the department 29miles southeast of Amiens, on the N17 road. The border with the Oise department is less than 1miles away.

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Personalities

• Blaise Cendrars recounts in "La Main coupée" that the Foreign Legion squad he commanded in 1916 rested up in Tilloloy.

Places of interest

• The village church (shown in the lede image), which was subject of a painting by artist Maurice Denis.
• The seventeenth-century château of Tilloloy; extensively damaged in the First World War, subsequently restored.

See also

• Communes of the Somme department

Notes and References

1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 2 December 2020. fr.