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BURNLEY

Burnley Borough Council

Additions: 1974 Burnley (Borough), Burnley RDC (partly), Padiham UDC

Arms (crest) of Burnley

Official blazon

Arms : Or a Chevron engrailed between three Roses Gules barbed seeded slipped and leaved proper on a Chief wavy Sable two ears of Wheat in saltire slipped and leaved between two Bees volant Or.
Crest : On a Wreath of the Colours on a Mount Vert environed of a Wreath of the Cotton Plant flowered proper a Stork Argent beaked and membered Gules resting the dexter claw on a Lacy Knot Purpure.
Supporters : On either side a Lion Purpure armed and langued Vert gorged with a Collar Argent charged with three Mullets Sable and resting the interior hind paw on a Shuttle fesswise Sable the thread inward to the shield Or.
Motto: 'HOLD TO THE TRUTH'

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on 17th December 1975.

The shield retains the former Burnley County Borough pattern of an engrailed red chevron on gold and a black wavy chief (see below). Three red roses indicate the three Lancashire authorities comprising the new Borough. The wavy line on the chief represents the river Brun. On the chief the two The bees represent the industry of Burnley and Padiham and the wheat represents the rurality of the former Burnley Rural District.

The crest is derived from that of the former Burnley County Borough Council. The punning stork of the Starkies, prominent in Padiham and the Burnley Rural area, rests a claw on the DeLacy knot, the badge of the DeLacys, who held Burnley and 'Blackburnshire' in medieval times. The stork stands on a hill surrounded by cotton plant.

The purple lion from the DeLacy arms provides the supporters. As in the crest of the former Burnley Rural District Council, he is differenced with a collar showing the well-known black stars on white, from the shield of the Towneley family, long associated with the Burnley area. Each lions rests a foot on a black shuttle from the arms of the Shuttleworths, seen in the Padiham device and the Rural District Council crest.

The motto - Hold to the Truth - is derived from that of the Towneleys -Tenez le Vraye.

Burnley County Borough

Arms (crest) of Burnley

Official blazon

Arms : Or, a chevron engrailed gules between in chief two fusils and in base a lion rampant sable; a chief wavy of the last, thereon a dexter hand erect couped at the wrist argent between two bees volant of the first.
Crest : On a Wreath of the Colours on a Mount Vert environed of a Wreath of the Cotton Plant flowered proper a Stork Argent beaked and membered Gules resting the dexter claw on a Lacy Knot Purpure.
Supporters : On a wreath of the colours, On a mount vert a stork argent, beaked and membered gules, holding in the dexter foot a stone and in the beak a cotton-flower slipped, both proper.
Motto: 'Pretiumque et causa laboris'

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on May 17, 1862.

For the explanation, see partly above. Any further information is welcome !


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