Filleigh
![St Paul's Church, Filleigh, viewed from south](/Images/godic/202501/13/St_Pauls_church,_Filleigh_-_geograph.org.uk_-_815060251.jpg")
![Armorial of Denzell: Sable, a mullet in chief and a crescent in base argent. These arms survive sculpted in stone on the monument to Sir Richard de Pomeroy (1442-1496), in Berry Pomeroy Church](/Images/godic/202501/13/DenzellArms0251.jpg")
![Two small monumental brasses formerly affixed to the now lost tomb-monument of Richard Fortescue (died 1570) of Filleigh, displaced from their original location in the pre-1732 old church. Now affixed in Victorian frames to north wall of nave of new post-1732 Church of St Paul, Filleigh. To the left the brass depicts Sir Bernard Drake (died 1586), who erected the now lost monument to his brother-in-law Richard Fortescue (died 1570) who is depicted in the brass on the right. Above is a marble mural monument listing members of the Fortescue family buried in the family vault below](/Images/godic/202501/13/RichardFortescueBrassesFilleighChurch0251.JPG")
![Mural monument to Lucy Fortescue (died 1767), 2nd wife and widow of Hugh Fortescue (died 1719), father by his 1st wife Bridget Boscawen of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Baron Fortescue and 1st Earl Clinton (1696-1751), and by his 2nd wife, the subject of the monument, of Matthew Fortescue, 2nd Baron Fortescue (1719-1785), father of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue (1753-1841)](/Images/godic/202501/13/LucyFortescueMonumentFilleigh0251.JPG")
Filleigh /faɪliː/ is a small village, civil parish and former manor in North Devon, on the southern edge of Exmoor, 3 1/2 miles west of South Molton. The village centre's street was, until the 1980s opening of the North Devon Link Road, the main highway between the North Devon administrative centre of Barnstaple and South Molton, leading westwards to Taunton. Much of the village's land is contained within grade I listed park and garden, Castle Hill, which straddles both sides of the Link Road providing a glimpse of some of it.