Warlus, Somme

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Coordinates: 49°55′29″N 1°56′43″E / 49.9247222222, 1.94527777778

Commune of Warlus

Location
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Map highlighting the commune of
Administration
Country France
Region Picardie
Department Somme
Arrondissement Amiens
Canton Molliens-Dreuil
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du Sud-Ouest Amiénois
Mayor André-Jean Colin
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation 37 m–130 m
(avg. 48 m)
Land area¹ 8,12 km²
Population²
(1999)
225
 - Density 27/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 80821/ 80270
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.
France

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

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[edit] Geography

Situated some 16 miles(26km) west of Amiens, on the D18 road.

[edit] Population

Population Evolution
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999
229 238 218 249 219 225
Census count starting from 1962 Population without double counting

[edit] History

The name of Warlus may have its origins in the name of a early bishop. Other sources say it comes from the Anglo-Saxon war(store or watch) and lux (light). In the 12th century, there was once a high tower which may have been used as a beacon during wartime.
There is nothing to suggest that Warlus is very old. It doesn’t appear to have had a castle and seems to have grown around a former convent, of which few vestiges remain (a few walls and some underground passages). The priors came from the Abbey of Selaincourt.
In the 12th century, the population grouped around the monastery and build a church. In the 16th & 17th centuries the seigneurs came from the Crequy family of Poix-de-Picardie .
During the Hundred Years War, the English went through the territory (there’s an ‘English path’ in Warlus woods) from Poix-de-Picardie to Airaines.
The tithes belonged to the abbey of Saint-Martin, Saint-Pierre of Selaincourt and Berteaucourt, and the Celestine convent.

[edit] Places of interest

  • 16th century church of Saint-Apre.

[edit] See also

Communes of the Somme department

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[edit] Notes