Flintshire Flag officially adopted after recognition by the Flag Institute

The Flag Institute has announced that the county flag of Flintshire is to be added to the registry.

Flintshire becomes the seventh Welsh county to acquire a registered flag.

Chief Vexillologist Graham Bartram of the Flag Institute, the body which advises the UK Parliamentary Flags & Heraldry Committee, accepted the Flintshire flag for registration which has now formally been adopted. 

The Flintshire Flag Supporters Group campaigned for Flintshire to have its own county flag supported by many Flintshire clubs, dignitaries and organisations including Flintshire Historical Society, former Alyn and Deeside MP Lord Barry Jones and the current MP Deeside MP Mark Tami who said: 

‘It is great news that this campaign has been successful, it is a strong design which I hope people in Flintshire will be able to identify with for years to come and I would like to congratulate the Flintshire Flag Supporter’s Group for their hard work campaigning for it.’

The flag is the banner of the coat of arms attributed to Edwin, ruler of the former kingdom of Tegeingl that covered much of the territory of Flintshire.

Those arms bore a black engrailed fleury cross (i.e. a cross capped with fleur-de-lis ends and scalloped edges) on a white field between four Choughs, a bird once likely to have been widespread in the area, in black and red. These arms, in a slightly amended form, had been used by the former Flintshire County Council.

A spokesperson for the Flintshire Flag Supporters Groups commented;

“We hope the flag becomes a symbol of pride and a recognisable feature in localities and communities right across this wonderful part of Wales.”

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