DUKINFIELD, Borough of (Cheshire).

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DUKINFIELD, Borough of (Cheshire). Quarterly azure and argent, a cross pointed and voided quarterly of the last and sable, between in the first quarter a raven close, and in the fourth a garb, both or. Crest — Out of a crown palisade or, a cubit arm vested azure, cuffed argent, the hand proper, holding an escutcheon of the second charged with the sun in his splendour of the first, between two ostrich feathers of the third. — Motto — " Integrity."

[Granted, College of Arms, 24th March 1900.]

These arms are based on those of the Dukinfield family, and a "docken " is a local name for a raven.

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