County flag
Berkshire
- Flag type
- County flag
- UK Design Code
- UNKG7456
- Flag date
- C14th
- Designer
- Traditional
- Adoption route
- Traditional
- Aspect ratio
- 3:5
- Pantone colours
- Yellow 109Green 356Orange 167Mid Brown 168Light Brown 7574Dark Red 484
- Certification
- Flag Institute Chief Vexillologist, Graham Bartram
About the flag
The Berkshire Flag is a community flag proclaiming the unique identity of this historic English county.
The flag features the traditional stag and oak symbol which has long represented Berkshire. Michael Drayton (1563-1631), a contemporary of William Shakespeare, cited it in his 1627 poem The Bataille of Agincourt, which describes the men of Berkshire marching in 1415 under the symbol of ‘a Stag, under an Oake that stood’.
Here, a red stag ‘royally attired’ with twelve-point antlers represents the county. The stag evokes Berkshire’s title as the ‘Royal County of Berkshire’, its celebrated forests and its herds of deer.
Twenty-four representative bodies came together to submit this design for registration. The Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, James Puxley, provided additional support.
