Tilloy-lès-Conty | |
Arrondissement: | Amiens |
Canton: | Ailly-sur-Noye |
Insee: | 80761 |
Postal Code: | 80160 |
Commune: | Ô-de-Selle |
Coordinates: | 49.755°N 2.1775°W |
Elevation M: | 105 |
Elevation Min M: | 48 |
Elevation Max M: | 135 |
Area Km2: | 6.34 |
Population: | 244 |
Population Date: | 2019 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Tilloy-lès-Conty (in French pronounced as /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]
The commune is situated 10miles south southwest of Amiens, on the D8e road
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.
A 6000-square-metre garden built by Michel Driencourt around a large 19th-century Picardie farm, in four sections:
2500 varieties of shrubs and perennials are on show with collections of delphinium, iris, poppies, magnolia, hydrangea and Japanese maples.