In front of the mayor on civic occasions are two wardens each carrying a silver mace.
In 1946 his son, who had settled in Kenya, returned the old mace to Winsford when he sold the remaining family land.
For many years an additional link was added to record the names of each Chairman and then Mayor.
The town's crest (it is not a coat of arms) consists of three salt baskets dripping brine in honour of the salt industry, the lion on a castle from the arms of the Verdin family who were great benefactors to the area a century ago, the three wheatsheafs of Cheshire and the three lions of England with a crozier, the emblem of Vale Royal Abbey.
The Latin motto Cassis Tutissima Virtus may be translated as "virtue is the safest defence".