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Coat of arms of Chorley

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Out of a Coronet composed of eight Roses Gules barbed and seeded proper set upon a Rim Or a Mount Vert thereon a Bull Argent supporting a Beacon Sable fired proper.
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Or on a Chevron Gules three Escochoens Argent each charged with a Blue Bottle slipped and leaved proper on a Chief of the second a Crown Vallery of the first
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Argent on a Pale Sable between two Cornflowers stalked leaved and flowered proper a Standish between two Cross Crosslets of the field
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are from the arms of the Chorley family, as in the arms of the Borough of Chorley. The black pale represents the
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which runs through the district, and the emblems on it stand for the local families of
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The Chorley Rural District Council was officially granted arms on April 28, 1952
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were amalgamated into the current Borough of Chorley under its arms
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Argent, a chevron gules between three blue bottles slipped azure.
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Coat of Arms of Chorley

Borough of Chorley
coat of arms
Borough of Chorley
borough status
Improvement Commissioners
Chorley

Chorley
Chorley
Grant of Arms
SPECTEMUR AGENDO
cornflowers
A6
trunk road
Standish
Charnock
Lancashire
Rivington Pike
de Hoghtons
Borough of Chorley
Adlington Urban District
Withnell Urban District
Chorley Rural District
"Coat of arms (crest) of Chorley"
"Coat of arms"


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