Eastwood (Scotland)
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EASTWOOD (District Council)
Additions : 1975 Renfrewshire (partly)
Incorporated into : 1996 East Renfrewshire
Official blazon
Argent, issuant from a mount in base, a wood of oak trees fructed Proper, charged with an eastern crown Or; on a chief wavy Azure, on a pale of the First a saltire Sable charged in the centre with a hedgehog of the Second, in dexter chief a fleur-de lis of the Last, and in sinister chief a cross-crosslet fitchee issuant from a crescent of the First.
Above the Shield is placed a coronet appropriate to a statutory District, videlicet:-a circlet richly chased, from which are issuant eight thistle-heads (three and two halves visible) Or.
Origin/meaning
The arms were granted on October 17, 1975.
The arms show in the base a canting oak forest, with an Eastern crown. The chief shows symbols taken from the arms of the three most influential families in the history of the region; the fleur-de-lys for the Montgomery family, the black cross with the hedgehog for the Maxwell of Caerlaverock family and the cross and crescent for the Cathcart of Cathcart family. The wavy division line symbolises the Cart river.
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