Warloy-Baillon

Warloy-Baillon
Warloy-Baillon
Location within Hauts-de-France region  Warloy-Baillon
Coordinates: 50°00′38″N 2°31′28″E / 50.0106°N 2.5244°E / 50.0106; 2.5244Coordinates: 50°00′38″N 2°31′28″E / 50.0106°N 2.5244°E / 50.0106; 2.5244
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Somme
Arrondissement	Amiens
Canton	Corbie
Intercommunality	Val de Somme
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Frédéric Martin
Area1	15.27 km2 (5.90 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	758
• Density	50/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	80820 / 80300
Elevation	57–142 m (187–466 ft) (avg. 68 m or 223 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Warloy-Baillon is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography

The commune is situated 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Amiens, on the D919 road

Population

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]

Marble memorial to two Allied pilots.

See also

• Communes of the Somme department

References

• INSEE

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Warloy-Baillon.

• Warloy-Baillon on the Quid website (French)