Blackmore (disambiguation)

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

People

• Bill Blackmore, English footballer who played for Southampton in the 1910s.
• Clayton Blackmore (born 1964), Welsh international footballer.
• Denis Blackmore, American mathematician.
• James Blackmore (1821–1875), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• John Horne Blackmore (1890–1971), first leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada.
• R. D. Blackmore, English novelist of the 19th century.
• Sir Richard Blackmore (1654–1729), English poet and physician.
• Richie Blackmore (rugby league), Rugby League footballer.
• Ritchie Blackmore, British hard rock guitarist.
  • Jürgen Blackmore, his son, guitarist of J.R. Blackmore Group and Over the Rainbow.
• Dr. Susan Blackmore, English psychologist and memeticist.
• William Henry Blackmore, solicitor.
• Winston Blackmore, former bishop of the FLDS Church, and leader of a breakaway community in Bountiful, British Columbia.
• An antagonist in "Robotrek".

Other uses

• 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 (supplement) is Supplement II for the Dungeons & Dragons game.
• Blackmoor Gate is part of Exmoor National Park, Devon, England.
  • Blackmoor 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.

See also

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