Tilloy-lès-Conty (, literally ''Tilloy

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Conty Conty () is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Origin of the name Conty comes from ''cond'' (confluence) (of the rivers and streams in the valley). The Princes of Conti, a minor branch of French royalty, to ...

'') is a former

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in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern

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. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Ô-de-Selle.

Geography

The commune is situated south southwest of

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, on the D8e road

Population

Places of interest

* The seventeenth century church of Notre-Dame

Château de Tilloy-lès-Conty

This is the ancient

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of the

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of the Croy family, restored as a country house at the end of the 17th century.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. 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.

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