Warloy-Baillon

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Coordinates: 50°00′38″N 2°31′28″E / 50.0105555556, 2.52444444444

Commune of Warloy-Baillon
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Picardie
Department	Somme
Arrondissement	Amiens
Canton	Corbie
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes du Val de Somme
Mayor	Frédéric Martin (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	57 m–142 m (avg. 68 m)
Land area¹	15,27 km²
Population² (1999)	708
- Density	46/km²
Miscellaneous
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.

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

[edit] Geography

Situated some 15 miles northeast of Amiens, on the D919 road

[edit] Population

Population Evolution

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
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

[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.