County flag
Rutland
- Flag type
- County flag
- UK Design Code
- UNKG7451
- Flag date
- 1st May 1950
- Designer
- College of Arms
- Adoption route
- Local Council
- Aspect ratio
- 3:5
- Pantone colours
- Green 355Yellow 116
- Certification
- Flag Institute Chief Vexillologist, Graham Bartram
About the flag
The Rutland Flag is a community flag proclaiming the unique identity of this historic English county.
The Rutland Flag is a banner of the arms of Rutland County Council, granted in 1950.
On 9 November 2015 the council agreed to waive their rights to this design and thereby make it freely available for public use.
The flag displays a golden horseshoe on green, the traditional emblem of Rutland since at least 1784.
The horseshoe symbolises a local custom of uncertain origin.
When first visiting Rutland, any peer of the realm must donate a ceremonial horseshoe to Oakham Castle.
Consequently, the Great Hall now displays a unique collection of over 230 horseshoes — the oldest gifted by Edward IV in 1470.
The semy of golden acorns that surrounds the emblem evokes Rutland’s status as England’s smallest county.
