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Civic Heraldry of the United Kingdom
England

WEST LANCASHIRE (district council)

Additions : 1974 Skelmersdale & Holland, Ormskirk, West Lancashire RDC (partly, 1932 Sefton RDC), Wigan RDC (partly)

Origin/meaning :
The arms were granted in 1983.
The arms show a lion and fleurs de lys, which derived from the former Up Holland badge of office, the sheafs or garbs of corn are from the former Skelmersdale badge of office but now also represent the agricultural nature of the district. The main feature of the arms is a representation of Ormskirk Church set upon a "grassy mount" which compares with Ormskirk Church in reality, which has just such amount of grass about it. The church on its mount is accompanied by three Lancashire roses

The crest consists of a Phoenix depicting the new authority created by local government reorganisation. Added to the phoenix is a miner's pick, shovel and lamp by a chain about the phoenix's neck and this makes the whole crest appropriate to the area covered by West Lancashire District Council as well as providing a particular reference to Skelmersdale as a mining community in the last century.

Beneath the Shield of Arms is the motto "Salus Populi Suprema lex" which was taken from the former West Lancashire Rural Badge and translated means "The Wellbeing of the People - The Supreme law".

Literature : Image and information provided by Laurence Jones.


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