Blackmore (disambiguation)

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Blackmore is a village in Essex. It may also refer to:

• John Horne Blackmore (1890–1971), first leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada.
• James Blackmore (1821–1875), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Sir Richard Blackmore (1654–1729), English poet and physician
• Dr. Susan Blackmore, English psychologist and memeticist
• R. D. Blackmore, English novelist of the 19th century
• William Henry Blackmore, Solicitor
• Ritchie Blackmore, British hard rock guitarist
• Blackmore's Night, a band started by Ritchie Blackmore with Candice Night
• Blackmore Vale is a valley in England, sometimes spelled Blackmoor
• The antagonist in The Suffering: Ties That Bind

The variant spelling Blackmoor also has several uses:

• Blackmoor is a fantasy role-playing game
• Blackmoor Gate is part of Exmoor National Park, Devon, England
  • Blackmoor Gate railway station is a historic narrow gauge railway station at that same location
• Blackmoor Copse and Bentley Wood are a wooded area in Wiltshire, England
• Blackmoor Manor is a fictional place featured in the Nancy Drew computer game Curse of Blackmoor Manor.

[edit] See also

• Richard Palmer Blackmur, American literary critic
• Black Moor, a type of goldfish
• the Blackmore surname