Flag of Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire


Proportion	3:5
Adopted	2011
Designed by	Traditional

The Buckinghamshire flag is the flag of the English county of Buckinghamshire. The traditional flag of Buckinghamshire features a chained swan on a bicolour of red and black. The Swan emblem dates back to Anglo-Saxon times when Buckinghamshire was known for breeding swans for the king.

Flag design

The pantone colours for the flag are:^[1]

Red 186
Black
White

References

↑ "UK Flag Registry: Buckinghamshire".

External links

Flag Institute registration particulars

Ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire Portal

Unitary authorities	Borough of Milton Keynes

Boroughs or districts	Aylesbury Vale Chiltern South Bucks Wycombe

Major settlements	Amersham Aylesbury Beaconsfield Buckingham Chesham Gerrards Cross High Wycombe Marlow Milton Keynes including Bletchley Fenny Stratford Stony Stratford Wolverton Newport Pagnell Olney Princes Risborough Wendover Winslow Woburn Sands See also: List of civil parishes in Buckinghamshire

Rivers	Chess Colne Frays Gade Great Ouse Jubilee Lyde Misbourne Ouzel Ray Thame Thames Tove Wraysbury Wye

Topics	Parliamentary constituencies Boundary changes Schools (Bucks) Schools (Milton Keynes) Places Sites of Special Scientific Interest Places of interest Country houses Grade I listed buildings Grade II* listed buildings History Lord Lieutenant High Sheriff Monastic houses Museums Railways Transport

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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