FILLINGHAM, a parish in the western division of
the wapentake of ASLACOE, parts of LINDSEY, county of
LINCOLN, 10 miles (N. by W.) from Lincoln, containing
279 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the arch-"
deaconry of Stow, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the
king's books at £22, and in the patronage of the
Master and Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford. The
church is dedicated to St. Andrew. There are fairs
for pigs on the Thursday in Easter week and on Nov.
22d. In the grounds of Summer castle, an embattled
edifice built by Sir Cecil Wray, in 1760, are vestiges of a
Roman camp, where coins, spear-heads, and fragments
of armour have been discovered.