Flag of Hampshire

Flag of Hampshire
Proportion	3:5
Adopted	Not yet adopted

Hampshire

A manufactured version of the proposed flag.

The Hampshire flag is the flag of the county of Southampton. It has not yet been registered with the Flag Institute.

Design

The proposed flag, 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.