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BURNLEY

Additions : 1974 Burnley RDC, Padiham

Origin/meaning :
The arms were 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. 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.

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