Flag of Warwickshire
The Warwickshire flag is the flag of the county of Warwickshire. It was registered with the Flag Institute in August 2016. The flag was registered as a result of a campaign that secured the support of a dozen county organisations plus the sanction of both the Lord Lieutenant and the High Sheriff.[1]
Design
The design features the traditional bear and ragged staff used in the county since the Middle Ages as insignia of the Earls of Warwick and subsequently appearing as the regimental badges of local military units and the emblems of numerous sporting and other county organisations.[1] The bear and ragged staff appear in John Speed's 1611 map of the county.[2] The design of the flag lacks the chains on the bear, commonly found in old depictions of the emblem.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Warwickshire Flag". Flag Institute. August 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ^ Speed, John; Nicolson, Nigel; Hawkyard, Alasdair (1988). The Counties of Britain: A Tudor Atlas by John Speed. London: Pavillion Books. pp. 178–179.
- ^ "Warwickshire's new flag". Association of British Counties. October 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
