Flag of Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire


Proportion	3:5
Adopted	20 May 2011
Designed by	Traditional

The flag of Buckinghamshire is the flag of the English county of Buckinghamshire. It was adopted on 20 May 2011. The traditional flag of Buckinghamshire features a chained swan on a bicolour of red and black. The swan emblem dates back to Anglo-Saxon times, when Buckinghamshire was known for breeding swans for the king.

Flag design

The Pantone colours for the flag are:^[1]

Red 186
Black
White

References

↑ "UK Flag Registry: Buckinghamshire".

External links

Ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire Portal
Unitary authorities	Borough of Milton Keynes
Boroughs or districts	Aylesbury Vale Chiltern South Bucks Wycombe
Major settlements	Amersham Aylesbury Beaconsfield Buckingham Chesham Gerrards Cross High Wycombe Marlow Milton Keynes including Bletchley Fenny Stratford Stony Stratford Wolverton Newport Pagnell Olney Princes Risborough Wendover Winslow Woburn Sands See also: List of civil parishes in Buckinghamshire
Rivers	Chess Colne Frays Gade Great Ouse Jubilee Lyde Misbourne Ouzel Ray Thame Thames Tove Wraysbury Wye
Topics	Parliamentary constituencies Boundary changes Schools (Bucks) Schools (Milton Keynes) Places Sites of Special Scientific Interest Places of interest Country houses Grade I listed buildings Grade II* listed buildings History Lord Lieutenant High Sheriff Monastic houses Museums Railways Transport

Subnational flags of the United Kingdom
England (list)	Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Black Country Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland Derbyshire Devon Dorset County Durham East Anglia Essex Gloucestershire Greater Manchester Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Isles of Scilly Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Lincolnshire City of London Mercia Middlesex Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Northumbria Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Warwickshire Wessex Westmorland Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire (East, North & West Ridings)
Northern Ireland (list)	Belfast Ulster
Scotland (list)	Caithness Kirkcudbrightshire Orkney Shetland Sutherland
Wales (list)	Anglesey Caernarfonshire Flintshire Glamorgan Merionethshire Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Pembrokeshire

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.