Filleigh, Devon

Description
Fillegh, a parish in Devonshire, near the river Bray, with a station on the G.W.R., 196 miles from London, and 3 1/4 WNW of South Molton. It has a post and money order office under South Molton; telegraph office, South Molton. Acreage, 2102; population of the civil parish, 292; of the ecclesiastical, with East Buckland, 403. 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; net value, £204 with residence. Patron, Earl Fortescue. The church was rebuilt in 1732, has an old tower, and contains many handsome monuments to the Fortescues. It was well restored in 1878 by Earl Fortescue. There is a suite of almshouses near a model farm.