Thoix

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Coordinates: 49°42′25″N 2°04′12″E / 49.7069444444, 2.07

Commune of Thoix

Location

Administration

Communauté de communes du canton de Conty

Mayor

Daniel Doré
(2008-2014)

Statistics

Elevation

82 m–188 m
(avg. 40 m)

Land area^¹

11,12 km²

Population^²
(1999)

144

- Density

12/km²

Miscellaneous

INSEE/Postal code

80757/ 80160

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Thoix is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.

1 Geography
2 Population
3 History
4 Places of interest
5 See also
6 External links
7 Notes

[edit] Geography

Situated some 15 miles southwest of Amiens, on the D100 road. The Parquets river, a small tributary of the river Évoissons, which flows into the Selle, has its source in Thoix and also feeds the castle moat

[edit] Population

Population Evolution
1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
86	105	114	130	135	144
Census count starting from 1962 Population without double counting

[edit] History

The village has been know by many names over the centuries: Teoletum, Teoleium, Tois in 1140, Thois in 1212 and Thoys by 1301. The inhabitants are known as Téoduliens.
Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet (1488-1525), a favourite of king Francis I, was seigneur of Thoix.

[edit] Places of interest

The 15th century château.
Saint-Etienne’s 15th century church
A 15th century stone cross in the square
A dovecote in the courtyard of the farm opposite the château
A memorial to an aerial combat between a French aeroplane and 8 German fighter planes on the 5th June 1940.