Flag of Cheshire

Cheshire


Proportion	3:5
Adopted	10 April 2013
Designed by	Historic

The Cheshire flag is the flag of the County Palatine of Chester. It was registered by the Flag Institute on 10 April 2013, the design being a banner of arms of the former Cheshire County Council, granted on 3 May 1938.

Flag design

On the flag are three golden sheaves of wheat and a golden blade on a blue background. The design has been associated with the Earldom of Chester since the 12th century, and has been used in the coat of arms of Chester since at least 1560.^[1]

Use

The flag has been flown alongside the Union Flag above the Department for Communities and Local Government.^[2] Stockport County have had a Cheshire Flag Day to commemorate Stockport's roots in the historic county of Chester.^[3]

The wheat sheaves and blue background are incorporated into the logo for Cheshire West and Chester Council and the wheat sheaves are incorporated into the logo for Cheshire East Council. Additionally the logo of Stockport County F.C. features the three golden sheaves of wheat and golden blade on a blue background as its Escutcheon.

References

↑ Association of British Counties – County flag proposals Accessed 5 February 2012
↑ Communities and Local Government – Cheshire flag to fly at Department for Communities and Local Government Date 10 October 2012. Accessed 13 February 2012
↑ Stockport County official website – Cheshire Flag Day Date 8 April 2011. Accessed 13 February 2012

External links

Flag Institute – Cheshire

Ceremonial county of Cheshire

Cheshire Portal

Unitary authorities	Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Halton Warrington

Major settlements	Alsager Birchwood Bollington Chester Congleton Crewe Culcheth Ellesmere Port Frodsham Handforth Knutsford Lymm Macclesfield Middlewich Nantwich Neston Northwich Poynton Runcorn Sandbach Warrington Widnes Wilmslow Winsford See also: List of civil parishes in Cheshire

Rivers	Bollin Croco Dane Dean Dee Gowy Goyt Mersey Weaver Wheelock

Topics	Flag Parliamentary constituencies Places Population of major settlements SSSIs Country houses Grade I listed churches Grade I listed non-ecclesiastical buildings Grade II* listed buildings History Museums Lord Lieutenants High Sheriffs

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 Northamptonshire Northumberland Northumbria Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Surrey Sussex Wessex Westmorland Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire (East, North & West Ridings)

Northern Ireland (list)	Belfast Ulster

Scotland (list)	Caithness Kirkcudbrightshire Orkney Shetland

Wales (list)	Anglesey Caernarfonshire Flintshire Glamorgan Merionethshire Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Pembrokeshire

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