FILLEIGH, a parish in South Molton district, Devon: near the river Bray, 3½ miles WNW of South Molton, and 6 E of Umberleigh r. station. Post town, South Molton, North Devon. Acres, 2, 038. Real property, £2, 092. Pop., 311. Houses, 70. Castle Hill is the seat of Earl Fortescue, and a very stately edifice; stands on a wooded eminence, crowned with an artificial structure in form of a ruined castle; and has fine gardens, shrubbery, and deer park. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of East Buckland, in the diocese of Exeter. The church was rebuilt in 1732; has an old tower: and contains many handsome monuments to the Fortescues. There is a suite of alms-houses, near a model farm.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))