Flag of Merioneth
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| Proportion | 3:5 |
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| Adopted | 2 January 2015 |
| Design | Blue, with three white goats rampant, a quarter sun with rays in the bottom hoist. |
| Designed by | Historic |
The Flag of Merioneth is the county flag of Merionethshire, adapted from the seal used by the former council. This in turn derived from the description of a banner borne by the men of Merioneth at the Battle of Agincourt, in the 17th-century poem of the same name by Michael Drayton. Here he wrote of “three goats dancing 'gainst a rising sun"; the shield was blue, the sun golden and the goats white. Speculation regarding this unusual arrangement suggests a connection with Cader Idris, where goats browsed and behind which the sun rose. The flag therefore both maintains a theme associated with Merioneth for six centuries and is also a highly distinctive design – no other flag features a sun in this position and the arrangement is uniquely Merioneth. It was registered by the Flag Institute in January 2015.
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