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-{{uk}}
+{| class="wikitable"
+|- style="vertical-align:top;"
-''' BURGHEAD'''
+|[[File:Burghead.jpg|350 px|center|alt=Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]
+|
-Incorporated into : 1975 [[Moray]] District Council (1996 [[Moray]] Area Council)
+<center>''' {{uc:{{PAGENAME}}}} '''</center><br>
+'''Country''' :
-[[File:Burghead.jpg|center]]
+* United Kingdom [[File:unitedkingdom-flag.gif|60 px|right]]
+** Scotland<br><br>
-====Official blazon====
+'''Incorporated into''':<br>
-Per fess Argent and Gules, a bar wreathed Or and Azure, between a beacon Sable in flames of the Second upon a hill Vert issuant from the bar, all in chief, and in base a bull passant contournee of the Third.
+* 1975 [[Moray]] District Council
+** 1996 [[Moray]] Area Council
+'''Status''':<br>
+* (< 1975) Burgh
+<br>
+{{#display_map:57.7011,-3.4897|width=250|height=250|zoom=7}}
+|}
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Official blazon
+|-
+|'''English'''
+|
+Per fess Argent and Gules, a bar wreathed Or and Azure, between a beacon Sable in flames of the Second upon a hill Vert issuant from the bar, all in chief, and in base a bull passant contournee of the Third.<br>
 The Shield ensigned of a coronet proper to a Burgh.
+|}
-====Origin/meaning====
+===Origin/meaning===
 The arms were granted on August 10, 1957.
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 The red and gold colours in the base could also allude to the Sutherland family whose stronghold, Duffus Castle, is in the immediate vicinity and was once the home of Freskinus de Moravia, one of the famed warriors of King David I.
-{|align="center"
+The arms are now used by the [[Burghead and Cummingston]] Community Council.
-|align="center"|[[File:Burgheadseal.jpg|350 px|center]] <br/>Seal of the burgh as used in the 1890s
-|}
+===Image gallery===
+<gallery widths=250px heights=200px perrow=0>
+File:Burgheadseal.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Burghead|Seal of the burgh as used in the 1890s
+</gallery>'''[[Literature]]''': Porteous, 1906; Urquhart, 1974
+{{uk}}
 {{media}}
-[[Literature]] : Porteous, 1906; Urquhart, 1974
 [[Category:United Kingdom Municipalities B]]
 [[Category:Scotland]]
 [[Category:Granted 1957]]