Tilques

Tilques
Tilques
Location within Hauts-de-France region  Tilques
Coordinates: 50°46′41″N 2°12′18″E / 50.7781°N 2.205°ECoordinates: 50°46′41″N 2°12′18″E / 50.7781°N 2.205°E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Saint-Omer
Canton	Saint-Omer-Nord
Intercommunality	Saint-Omer
Government
• Mayor	Adrien Decool
Area^1	7.29 km^2 (2.81 sq mi)
Population (2006)^2	1,061
• Density	150/km^2 (380/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	62819 / 62500
Elevation	1–72 m (3.3–236.2 ft) (avg. 27 m or 89 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.

Tilques is a commune in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France. The placename derives from medieval Flemish: Tilleke.^[1]

Geography

Tilques is located 4 miles (6 km) north of Saint-Omer, at the D214 and D943 road junction, in the Pas-de-Calais department..

Map of the commune and adjacent places

Population

Age pyramid

The population of the town is relatively young. The rate of people age over 60 years (18.4%) is indeed lower than the national rate (21.6%) and county rate (19.8%). Like the national and departmental allocations, the female population of the town is larger than the male population. Rate (51.2%) is of the same order of magnitude than the national rate (51.6%).

The distribution of the population of the town is by age, in 2007, as follows:

48.8% males (0–14 years = 20.6%, from 15 to 29 years = 16.5%, from 30 to 44 years = 21.4%, from 45 to 59 years = 22.7%, more 60 years = 18.7%); 51.2% of women (0–14 years = 19.6%, from 15 to 29 years = 19.6%, from 30 to 44 years = 21.1%, from 45 to 59 years = 21.6%, over 60 years = 18.1%).

Historical population of Tilques

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	736	751	696	776	900	947	1061
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

• The church of Saint Martin, dating from the nineteenth century.
• The thirteenth-century château d’Ecou at Tilques, which was rebuilt in the 15th century

The arms of emblazon Tilques is as follows:
money to the three heads of Moorish sand twisted field.

Sites and Monuments

The church of the Sacred Heart whose bell tower is considered the little brother of CeuI the cathedral of Saint-Omer and the nave was rebuilt in the nineteenth century by Charles Leroy, the architect of the Cathedral Basilica of Notre- Lady of the Lattice-Lille.

The castle dates from the thirteenth century listening, it was remodeled in the fifteenth century. In 1595 he belonged to Adrian Cross Lord of Wasquehal.

The mid-eighteenth century, it belonged to Andre de Martigny, then Guislain of Herbais and Family Taffin Tilques who kept two centuries.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

1. Placename Tilleke: proussel.voila.net. The village is attested in 1139 as the Tilleke, from Gallo-Roman Tilliacum (property of Tillius)

External links

• Tilques on the Quid website (French)