CREIL, a town of northern France, in the department of Oise, 32 m. N. of Paris on the Northern railway, on which it is an important junction. Pop. (1931) 1o,469. The church (12th to 15th centuries) is in the Gothic style. There are some traces of a castle in which Charles VI. resided during the period of his madness. The manufacture of machinery, heavy iron goods and nails, and copper and iron founding, are important industries, and the Northern railway has workshops there. The town was bom barded in 1918.