Flag of Lancashire

The Lancashire flag is the flag of the historic county of Lancashire.[1]

Lancashire
Proportion3:5
Adopted20 November 2008
DesignA red rose flower on a yellow (gold) field.
Designed byFriends of Real Lancashire

The Red Rose of Lancaster is a symbol for the House of Lancaster, immortalised in the verse "In the battle for England's head/York was white, Lancaster red" (referring to the 15th century War of the Roses).

An unofficial Lancashire flag, a red rose on a white field, was never registered. When an attempt was made to register it with the Flag Institute, it was found that this flag had already been registered by the town of Montrose, Angus, several hundred years earlier with the Lyon Office. As the Flag Institute will not register two flags of the same design within the United Kingdom, Lancashire's official flag was registered — in 2008 — as a red rose on a gold field. The background was chosen as it, along with red, are the livery colours of the county.[2]

  • Flag of Lancashire County Council, which is a banner of the council's coat of arms.
    Flag of Lancashire County Council, which is a banner of the council's coat of arms.
  • Unofficial version of the Lancashire flag with a white background, commonly used before the adoption of the current version.
    Unofficial version of the Lancashire flag with a white background, commonly used before the adoption of the current version.
  • Flag of Montrose.
    Flag of Montrose.

Flag design

The Pantone colors for the flag are: yellow, 116; red, 485; dark red, 201; and green, 354.[3]

Previous proposals

In the 1990s, William Crampton, founder of the Flag Institute, came up with a number of potential designs for a flag of Lancashire. These included a white flag divided by a red Saint George's Cross with a red rose in each quarter; a blue-white-blue horizontal triband with a red rose on the white stripe, shifted towards the hoist; a white flag with a blue border and a red rose in the centre; a white flag divided by a red Saint George's Cross with a red rose in the first quarter.[4]

Michael Faul, a colleague of Crampton's, also conceived two proposals of his own, including a white flag divided by a blue Nordic cross bearing a red rose at its centre; a blue flag with a white triangle extending from the hoist to the fly edge and a red rose in the hoist.[5]

References
  1. "Lancashire flag flying high above Whitehall". gov.uk. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  2. Visser, Chris (29 July 2008). "Lancashire flag is all yellow". Lancashire Evening Post. Archived from the original on 1 August 2008.
  3. "Lancashire". The Flag Institute. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  4. "Lancashire". British County Flags. 23 June 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
  5. "Lancashire". British County Flags. 23 June 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2023.


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