Flag of Hampshire

Flag of Hampshire Proportion 3:5 Adopted Not yet adopted

Flag of Hampshire Proportion 3:5 Adopted Not yet adopted

Flag of Hampshire Proportion 3:5 Adopted Not yet adopted

Hampshire

The Hampshire flag refers to a number of proposed flags of the county of Southampton. It has not yet been registered with the Flag Institute.

Design

There are a number of proposed flags. The first retains the rose and crown pattern used in the county for several centuries in various guises. In 1992 the local county council received a formal grant of arms that included a gold royal crown on a red field, over a red Tudor rose on a gold field. Wishing to include a reference to the county's association with the era of Alfred the Great and his capital of Winchester, the group seeking to establish a flag for the county adopted this proposal from Jason Saber which replaces the "royal crown" with a specifically Saxon crown. Such a crown also appears in the full achievement of arms used by the council, symbolising exactly the same Alfredian legacy as intended in this proposed flag.

A second proposal by Mike Jacobs also has the rose and crown pattern but this time with a Hampshire variation of the red and white Tudor rose. The green background represents the Downs, the blue represents The Solent, and the white stripe represents the ubiquitous chalk.

A third proposal (also from Mike Jacobs) displays a Hampshire hog (a term used to describe Hampshire folk). The red and gold colours signify Hampshire's Wessex connections.

Gallery

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  A photo of a proposed flag.
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  The green, white and blue Rose and Crown flag by the Hampshire border.
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  The red and gold Hampshire Hog flag being flown in the New Forest.

Outside links

• Hampshire Association blog
• Hampshire Flag Facebook Page
• Flag Institute
• Hampshire flag proposals from British County Flags
• A different Hampshire Flag Facebook Page