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Civic Heraldry of the United Kingdom England BIDEFORD (borough council) Incorporated into : 1974 Torridge The arms are continued by the Town Council. Origin/meaning : The arms were granted on September 12, 1936. The arms are a comination of the Grenville arms and the old Borough seal, dated 1577, on which was depicted the stern of what is probably a barge passing through an arch of the bridge. Sir Richard Grenville was a native of Bideford, whose last fight in the Revenge, and the part played therein by 'men of Bideford in Devon' was nobly sung by Lord Tennyson. The Elizabethan ship recalls Bideford's age-long connection with ship-building and the maritime trade. Literature : Image and information send to me by mail

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