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AYLESBURY VALE DISTRICT COUNCIL |
ARMS: Vert a Mute Swan rousant proper gorged with a Saxon Crown Or in chief a Bar wavy Argent. Motto 'CONCORDIA PRORSUM' - Forward in harmony. The Aylesbury Vale District was formed by the amalgamation of the Borough of Aylesbury, the Borough of Buckingham, the Aylesbury Rural District, the Buckingham Rural District, the Wing Rural District and part of the Winslow Rural District. On the 1st April 2020 the District ceased to exist when it was merged with the County Council and other districts to form a new Buckinghamshire Council unitary authority. Picture used with permission, do not reproduce. |
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The green background indicates the fertility of the Vale. The main area is occupied by the traditional White Swan of Buckingham which is common to the arms of the County Council and the Borough of Aylesbury and the Borough of Buckingham. In the two former arms the swan has a gold ducal crown about the neck, with a gold chain attached, though in the Buckingham arms recorded at the Visitations the crown has no chain. In the Aylesbury arms it has no crown, like the County Council's Swan supporter. Here the swan's neck is encircled by the gold Saxon crown from the County crest seen also in red in the arms of Aylesbury. The white wave represents the River Ouse in its course across the District's northerly parts. The whole shield thus indicates this fertile rural area of Buckinghamshire watered mainly by the Ouse. |
CHILTERN DISTRICT COUNCIL |
ARMS: Or on a Mount in base with Chalk Outcrops two Beech Trees in fess their interior leaves merging proper a Chief chequy Argent and Sable. Motto 'FREELY WE SERVE'. The Chiltern District was formed by the amalgamation of the Chesham Urban District and the Amersham Rural District. On the 1st April 2020 the District ceased to exist when it was merged with the County Council and other districts to form a new Buckinghamshire Council unitary authority. Picture used with permission, do not reproduce. |
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The two beech trees from the arms of the Chesham UDC, with their leaves mingled on a chalky hill, on a gold background, represent two united Chiltern authorities. The chequered pattern from the same arms, is an heraldic reference to the Chess Valley. |
SOUTH BUCKINGHAMSHIRE DISTRICT COUNCIL |
ARMS: Per pale Gules and Sable issuant from a plain Base barry wavy of four Argent and Vert a Mount of the last thereon in front of a Beech Tree fourche of two branches Or a White Swan wings inverted and addorsed proper gorged with a Saxon Crown Gold. Motto 'CONSILLO ET ANIMIS' - By wisdom and courage. The South Buckinghamshire District was formed by the amalgamation of the Beaconsfield Urban District and part of the Eton Rural District. On the 1st April 2020 the District ceased to exist when it was merged with the County Council and other districts to form a new Buckinghamshire Council unitary authority. Picture by R.Young, Stoke Poges 2001. |
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The arms are based on those of the former Eton RDC, these indicated the District's situation in Buckinghamshire, mainly in the south near the Thames, and the symbolism is continued in the background of the historic livery colours of the Staffords, Earls and Dukes of Buckingham, whose red and black livery forms the basis of the arms of the County Council. Their White Swan badge, also familiar in the County, stands on a grassy bank by the heraldic river and wears round the neck the Saxon crown from the County crest. Completing the symbolism is an heraldically stylized tree derived from the familiar Buckinghamshire beech in the County crest, the trunk forked to denote the union of two former county districts. The arms therefore identify the South Buckinghamshire District as an amalgamation of most of the former Eton Rural District and the Beaconsfield Urban District. |
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