Blackmore
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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.
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 town to Brentwood.
[edit] Notable residents
- Henry Fitzroy - birthplace of the illegitimate son of Henry VIII and Elizabeth Blount.
- William Hope Hodgson - birthplace of the author.
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