Tilques Tileke
Commune
The town hall of Tilques
Location of Tilques
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Coordinates: 50°46′41″N 2°12′18″E / 50.7781°N 2.205°E / 50.7781; 2.205
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Saint-Omer
Canton	Saint-Omer
Intercommunality	Pays de Saint-Omer
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Patrick Bedague[1]
Area 1	7.29 km2 (2.81 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	1,070
• Density	150/km2 (380/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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.

Tilques (French pronunciation: [tilk]; West Flemish: Tileke) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France region in northern France.^[3] The placename derives from medieval Flemish: Tilleke.^[4]

Geography

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

Population

The population of the commune is older than the departmental average: as of 2019, the rate of people aged over 60 years (26.5%) is higher than the departmental rate (25.0%), and the rate of people aged under 30 years (32.7%) is lower than the departmental rate (36.6%).^[5][6]

Places of interest

• The thirteenth-century château d'Ecou at Tilques, which was rebuilt in the 15th century
• The church of the Sacred Heart. Its nave was rebuilt in the nineteenth century by Charles Leroy, the architect of the Basilica of Notre Dame de la Treille in Lille.

The castle dates from the thirteenth century, it was remodeled in the fifteenth century. In 1595 it 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.