Blackmore

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

Blackmore
Blackmore shown within Essex
OS grid reference	TL603016
Parish	Blackmore, Hook End and Wyatts Green
District	Brentwood
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	INGATESTONE
Postcode district	CM4
Dialling code	01277
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
European Parliament	East of England
UK Parliament	Brentwood & Ongar
List of places: UK • England • Essex

Coordinates: 51°41′27″N 0°19′05″E / 51.6908, 0.3181

Blackmore is a village in Essex, England. It is located approximately 5 km (3 miles) east of Chipping Ongar and is 12 km (7 miles) west-southwest from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the parish of Blackmore, Hook End and Wyatts Green in the borough of Brentwood and parliamentary constituency of Brentwood & Ongar.

The village, which has its own primary school, is surrounded by countryside and has several pubs. Blackmore has been named Essex best kept village of the year, for 1982, 1984, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003 and Essex Village of the Year 1997. The village green has a small pond at its eastern end. To the east of the village itself is a cottage which was built in 1345.

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.

It is close to the Chelmsford Road, part of the A414. The 261 bus route connects the village to Brentwood. The 32 bus route also goes through the village connecting it to Ongar and Chelmsford.

[edit] Notable residents

Henry Fitzroy - birthplace of the illegitimate son of Henry VIII and Elizabeth Blount.
William Hope Hodgson - birthplace of the author. - Actually born Blackmore End - a different Village in Essex, and no entry on Wikipedia.