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image located by Ian MacDonald, 14 July 2010
Source:
http://englishcountyflags.com
This flag is being marketed for Herefordshire.
Herefordshire like many counties does not actually have a flag as such, but
it does have a coat of arms. The coat of arms was granted in 1946 and is
therefore pretty recent. There is a flag which is available for purchase which
features the shield on the arms stretched into a banner. It is a particularly
attractive flag for the people of Herefordshire.
Source:
http://englishcountyflags.com
Ian MacDonald, 14 July
2010
Despite its long, proud tradition, Herefordshire is one of the exceptions. Hence the Herefordshire-sized gap on the flag-map of England. We want to close that gap in 2019 and we are holding a competition to design a flag for the county.
A Herefordshire flag will
The winning entry will be chosen by the people of Herefordshire. It will then be officially registered, flown from public buildings and by anyone else who wants to express their love of this beautiful county.
There are already some existing "Herefordshire flags" and a coat of arms. But this can only be flown with permission. And the flags you might have seen were chosen only by their designers.
Anyone will be able to fly this one. And it will belong to us all.
The Herefordshire Flag Committee
The competition will be open for submissions from 1st March 2019.
Closing date: The competition will close on 15th April 2019.
Individuals, schools and groups may submit entries in line with the rules and guidance set out below.
Everyone is eligible, whether they live in Hereford or Hong Kong, Leominster or Lithuania. Entrants can be professional artists or novices who have hardly held a crayon. There is no upper or lower age limit. Entrants may submit as many designs as they wish.
A panel appointed by the Herefordshire Flag Committee will assess the entries, taking into account the following factors:
Full details at
https://www.the-shire.co.uk/herefordshireflag
Matthew Engel, 15 January 2019
The competition to find an official flag for Herefordshire has produced a
bumper entry with 675 designs being submitted before the closing date. Entries
came from schools and colleges across the county and from individuals from
Checkley to Chile.
The designs are now being anonymised and sifted to go
before a panel of local judges who will meet next month with Philip Tibbetts
acting as their technical adviser. They will prepare a short list of possibles.
Herefordshire people will then make the final decision. The ballot will be
restricted to those living within the county but everyone aged five and up will
be allowed a say. The plan is for the winning flag to be revealed at a ceremony
in Hereford in the autumn.
John Moody, 22 June 2019
The quest for a new, official version is nearly complete. Voting for Herefordshire's new official flag will begin in early September with the winning design due to be revealed on November 2, the Herefordshire Flag Committee announced today. The shortlisted entries will be named when the schools go back after the August bank holiday and the county's residents will then have about a month to make their choice. Everyone aged five and over will be eligible to vote.
"We had hope to be voting in July," said David Marshall, chairman of the committee. "But the process has been more complex than expected. This is partly a problem of success. The huge number of entries - 690 - inevitably meant that things took longer. "We've waited 1,000 years for this, so we thought it was worth taking a few more weeks to get everything right."
Entries came from schools and colleges across the county. Herefordshire is
one of only three of England's 39 historic counties not to have its own
registered flag, alongside Leicestershire and Hampshire.
John Moody,
7 September 2019
Five official proposals for the flag of Herefordshire and the voting form and
instructions can be found here:
https://www.the-shire.co.uk/herefordshireflag
The voting closes on
2019-09-30 @23:59 and the results will be announced on 2019-11-02.
Tomislav Todorovic, 16 September 2019