Places
- Moor, a word for a fen or marsh, now mostly applied to flat areas of former marshland in Somerset, England
- Moor or moorland, an uncultivated upland area that is characterized by low growing vegetation on acidic soils
- Moor, the German spelling of Mór, a town in Fejér county, Hungary
- The Moor, a street in Sheffield, England
- The Moor, Hawkhurst, a village green in Kent, England.
- Moor Crichel, a village in southwest England, situated on the Cranborne Chase plateau, five miles east of Blandford Forum
- Moor Island, one of the uninhabited Canadian Arctic Archipelago islands in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut
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