County flag
Cumberland
- Flag type
- County flag
- UK Design Code
- UNKG7428
- Flag date
- 19th September 1950
- Designer
- College of Arms
- Adoption route
- Traditional
- Aspect ratio
- 3:5
- Pantone colours
- Green 354Blue 300White
- Certification
- Flag Institute Chief Vexillologist, Graham Bartram
About the flag
The Cumberland Flag is a community flag proclaiming the unique identity of this historic English county.
The flag reworks the banner of arms of the former Cumberland County Council, granted in 1950.
Both flags consist of blue and white wavy lines representing the coast, mountains, fells and lakes.
Above them is a green field with three grass-of-Parnassus — Cumberland’s official flower — evoking marshy uplands and fertile plains.
The new flag, however, replaces the stylised grass-of-Parnassus with a botanically recognisable representation.
It also uses the green of the Welsh flag to provide extra symbolism, as the name Cumberland derives from Cymru-land (land of the Welsh).
A number of regional bodies supported this registration.
They include: Bridekirk Parish Council, Cockermouth and District Civic Trust, Cumberland Agricultural Society, Cumberland Football Association, Cumberland Geological Society, Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian Society, Cumbria County History Trust, Federation of Cumbrian Amenity Societies, Holme Low Parish Council, Lakeland Dialect Society, Muncaster Parish Council, Penrith Civic Society, Workington and District Civic Trust, and Workington Twinning Association.
