Warloy-Baillon
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Commune of Warloy-Baillon |
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Location | ||
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Administration | ||
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Country | France | |
Region | Picardie | |
Department | Somme | |
Arrondissement | Amiens | |
Canton | Corbie | |
Intercommunality | Communauté de communes du Val de Somme | |
Mayor | Frédéric Martin (2001-2008) |
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Statistics | ||
Elevation | 57 m–142 m (avg. 68 m) |
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Land area¹ | 15,27 km² | |
Population² (1999) |
708 | |
- Density | 46/km² | |
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INSEE/Postal code | 80820/ 80300 | |
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. | ||
Warloy-Baillon is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.
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[edit] Geography
Situated some 15 miles northeast of Amiens, on the D919 road
[edit] Population
1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 |
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729 | 733 | 710 | 698 | 718 | 708 |
Census count starting from 1962 Population without double counting |
[edit] Places of interest
- The church of Saint-Pierre: The stone building was constructed on natural sandstone foundations.
- The war memorial.
- The military cemetery[1]
- Memorial plaque to two Allied pilots that died over Warloy-Baillon during the Second World War : in 1940, Lucas in a Hurricane Mk1 , and in 1944, Pinkney, in an Auster.
- The tower of an old windmill, in need of restoration.[2]
[edit] See also
Communes of the Somme department
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[edit] External links
- Warloy-Baillon on the Insee website (French)
- Warloy-Baillon on the Quid website (French)
[edit] Notes
- This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on April 7th 2008.