Blackmore

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This article is about the English village. For other uses, see Blackmore (disambiguation).

Blackmore






Statistics
Population:
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	TL603016
Administration
Parish:	Blackmore, Hook End and Wyatts Green
District:	Brentwood
Shire county:	Essex
Region:	East of England
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	Essex
Historic county:	Essex
Services
Police force:	Essex Police
Fire and rescue:	{{{Fire}}}
Ambulance:	East of England
Post office and telephone
Post town:	INGATESTONE
Postal district:	CM4
Dialling code:	01277
Politics
UK Parliament:	Brentwood and Ongar
European Parliament:	East of England

Blackmore is a village in the Brentwood borough of Essex in the East of England.

Located a couple of miles to the south of the main Ongar - Chelmsford road, Blackmore has been named best kept village of the year. The village green, with a small pond at its eastern end, gives the village an attractive focus.

The Priory Church of St Laurence church marks the site of the former monastery, dissolved during the reign of Henry VIII. This is now the parish church and features one of the last remaining all wooden steeples (currently inhabited by a community of bats) in England.

Henry Fitzroy, illegitimate son of Henry VIII and Elizabeth Blount, was born at Blackmore.

The village, which has its own primary school, is surrounded by countryside and has several pubs.