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Edmonton
was a local government district in north-east
Middlesex
,
England
, from 1850 to 1965.
History
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Edmonton
local board
was formed in 1850 for the parish of
Edmonton All Saints
. In 1881
Southgate
was separated from the Edmonton local board's district, forming its own local board.
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Edmonton became an
urban district
in 1894 under the
Local Government Act
of that year. In 1937 the urban district was granted a charter of incorporation as a
municipal borough
.
In 1965 the municipal borough was abolished and its former area transferred to
Greater London
to be combined with that of the
Municipal Borough of Southgate
and the
Municipal Borough of Enfield
to form the
London Borough of Enfield
.
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Edmonton's old town hall in Fore Street, designed in the
Gothic style
and completed in 1885, was demolished in the 1980s.
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Coat of arms
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The Municipal Borough of Edmonton was granted a coat of arms on 2 October 1937. It was as follows:
Per pale wavy
sable
and
azure
on a
saltire
or
between two cogwheels in
fess
argent
an open book proper bound
gules
edged or.
Crest: On a Wreath or and azure issuant from flames of fire proper a
demi-lion
per bend sinister sable and or holding in the dexter paw a sledgehammer also proper and resting the sinister paw upon a
cinquefoil
gules.
Supporters: On either side a
lion
gules gorged with a collar engrailed with the chain reflexed over the back and charged on the shoulder with a
saltire
couped or supporting a staff or flying therefrom a banner the dexter azure charged with an oak tree eradicated and fructed proper and the sinister gules charged with two seaxes in saltire argent pomelled and hilted or.
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The black and blue background represents the division of the ancient parish of Edmonton, the western portion being the district of Southgate. The saltire (
St Alban's Cross
) refers to the
Abbey
of
St Albans
which held the Manor of Edmonton and the book alludes to the borough's literary associations, especially with
Lamb
and
Keats
.
The lion is from the arms of the old local family of Francis, while the cinquefoil stands for the family of Charlton, sometime Lords of the Manor. The lion holds a sledgehammer symbolizing the vigour of Edmonton's industries, to which the cogwheels also refer. The flames allude in particular to the gas industry.
The supporting lions are taken to typify courage and determination. One banner alludes to the ancient forests of the neighbourhood, and the other contains the seaxes from the arms of the Middlesex County Council. The saltires repeat that on the shield.
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