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NEWBURGH

Incorporated into : 1975 North East Fife District Council (1996 Fife Area Council)

Official blazon

Gules, on a cross quadrate [couped] Or, a lion rampant of the field, armed and langued Azure; on a chief embattled of the Second a round buckle between two thistles of the Third, flowered of the First.

Above the Shield is placed a coronet appro­ priate to a Burgh, and in an Escrol below the same this Motto "Cruce Sancti Andreas Docebatur Populum".

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on January 23, 1953.

Seal of the burgh as used in the 1890s

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Literature : Porteous, 1906; Urquhart, 1974