[I know this map has outdated county boundaries – it’s the best I could find]

Pretty much every English county has a flag (some of them very good), but only some Welsh ones do. Considering how much we punch above our weight when it comes to our National flag, surely we could do a bit better on the county level. Monmouthshire gets it, their flag is great.

What would you want on your county flag?

by Secure-Barracuda

16 comments

  1. I, say this as an American, think they should. And that it would be cool to see what they come up with. 

  3. Carmarthenshire kinda does with the Flag of Dinefwr it is unofficial but is very much defacto

  5. Should each town have its flag, each village, each street? We have enough flags as it is.

  6. All of the county flags are unofficial, so there’s nothing stopping the remaining counties from adopting one if the idea is popular enough.

    Of the existing flags, those of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire, Flintshire, Ceredigion, Glamorgan, and Monmouthshire all derive from the attributed arms of historic rulers or similar, Pembrokeshire references the Tudors, and Breconshire references the arms of Brychan. Merioneth’s is taken from an anachronistic description of a flag flown by the men of the county at Agincourt.

    On that basis, the remaining flags could be based on the arms of historic leaders, but so long as they’re well-designed I don’t think it really matters.

  7. I lived in Gwynedd for four years and never once saw that flag, the old Kingdom of Gwynedd flag on the other hand, I saw that all the time!

  8. Absolutely. Especially when they reference historical symbols

  12. As the counties keep getting chopped and changed by the time the flag becomes official the county will be gone.

  15. Is that a bat? Seems an odd choice of animal for a flag.

  16. North, East, and West Yorkshire all have their own flags too, South Yorkshire doesn’t have an official one other than the standard Yorkshire rose on a blue background. there is an unofficial one, but it is by far one of the ugliest flags in the UK.

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