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NORTH YORKSHIRE

Additions : 1974 Yorkshire East Riding

Origin/meaning :
The arms were granted on 29th April 1980.
The red cross of St. George (which appeared in the arms of the former North Riding County Council and is also in the York City arms) has been charged with five white roses. The blue and green wavy bendlets represent the streams and the hills of the Yorkshire Dales and the Wolds.

The crest comprises a red mural crown (alluding to the gold one which ensigned the arms of the former West Riding County Council) together with a lion passant auardant (as in the York City arms, and a rose en soleil (which appeared in the arms of the former West Riding of Yorkshire County Council).

Two keys in saltire have been included to represent the ecclesiastical associations of the County (the main charge in one of the coats of the Archbishopric), together with the Whitby coiled serpent appear with the sinister lion. The dexter lion is differenced in a more secular fashion - a sword in the forepaw and a fountain beneath the hindpaw, the latter alluding to the County's seaboard and again to the Dales.

Literature : Image and information provided by Laurence Jones.


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