Editing Huntingdon and Peterborough (section)

==Coat of arms==
Huntingdon and Peterborough County Council was granted [[coat of arms|armorial bearings]] by the [[College of Arms]] on 3 April 1965. The blazon was as follows:

''Barry argent and azure on a fess embattled vert a cornucopia between two garbs or; and for a crest issuant from a mural crown or a demi lion gules gorged with a collar flory counterflory and supporting a staff or, flying therefrom a banner vert charged with two keys in saltire or; mantled azure, doubled argent. And for supporters on the dexter side a pikeman of the [[New Model Army]] supporting with the exterior hand a pike, and on the sinister side a mitred abbot in processional vestments for St Peter's Day supporting with the exterior hand a crosier and sudarium all proper. Badge: Two keys in saltire surmounted by a buglehorn or the strings azure interlaced with the keys.''<ref>Briggs, Geoffrey ''Civic and Corporate Heraldry: A Dictionary of Impersonal Arms of England, Wales and N. Ireland'' Heraldry Today, London, 1971</ref>

The arms and crest were a combination of the arms previously used by Huntingdonshire and Soke of Peterborough County Councils. To these were added [[supporters]]: a pikeman of the New Model Army for the [[Oliver Cromwell|Cromwellian]] associations of Huntingdonshire, and a [[mitred abbot]] for the origins of the Soke as territory administered by [[Peterborough Cathedral|Peterborough Abbey]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.civicheraldry.co.uk/obs_county.html#huntingdon%20and%20peterborough%20cc |title=Huntingdon and Peterborough County Council |access-date=2008-06-05 |publisher=Civic Heraldry of England and Wales }}</ref>

The [[Latin]] [[motto]] adopted by the council – ''Cor Unum'', or ''One Heart –'' was formerly that of the Soke.