Grampian

GRAMPIAN Country: United Kingdom Scotland Incorporated into: 1996 Aberdeen (city) 1996 Aberdeenshire 1996 Moray Status: 1975-1996 Regional Council Districts: Moray Banff and Buchan Gordon City of Aberdeen Kincardine and Deeside Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":57.261200000000002319211489520967006683349609375,"lon":-2.79910000000000014352963262354023754596710205078125,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon

English

Azure, a saltire Argent, sur­ mounted at the fess point by an inescutcheon Gules, fimbriated Or, and charged with a cross­ crosslet fitchee Or, a bordure counter-compony of the First and Second. Above the Shield is placed a coronet appropriate to a statutory Region, videlicet:- a circlet richly chased, from which are issuant four thistles leaved (one and two halves visible) Or; and on a Com­partment below the Shield are set for Supporters, dexter, a ptarmigan Proper, and sinister, a unicorn Argent, armed, maned and un­ guled Or, and gorged with a collar Gules, from which is pendant an oval badge Azure, fimbriated Or, charged with a saltire Argent.

Origin/meaning

The arms are granted in March 1975.

The arms shows a St. Andrew's cross for Scotland within a bordure and a red esutcheon. The cross on the escutcheon is taken from the arms of the ancient Earldom of Mar. The supporters are the unicorn common to all Regional Councils, and a ptarmigan, a typical bird in the region.

Literature: Urquhart, 1979

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