Town flag
Elstree and Borehamwood (Hertfordshire)
- Flag type
- Town flag
- UK Design Code
- UNKG7471
- Flag date
- 1 October 2020
- Designer
- Lily Saron
- Adoption route
- Popular Vote
- Aspect ratio
- 3:5
- Pantone colours
- Green 363Yellow 109Black
- Certification
- Flag Institute Chief Vexillologist, Graham Bartram
About the flag
The Elstree and Borehamwood Flag is a community flag proclaiming the unique identity of this town in the historic county of Hertfordshire.
Elstree and Borehamwood is a fusion of once-separate settlements whose names denote their Anglo-Saxon origins.
The town council sponsored a design competition won by 11-year-old Lily Saron.
Her flag comprised a black tree in silhouette against a green and yellow background, reflecting the town’s rural surroundings and elements in the names of Elstree and Borehamwood.
The judges added a yellow Saxon crown to evoke the town’s location astride the boundary between two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Essex and Mercia.
For further information, see John Cartledge’s articles in Flagmaster 164 (2022) OR Elstree and Borehamwood Town Crier 40 (Winter 2020).
