The flag of #Worcestershire was registered in 2013. The flag features three of the county’s famed black pears. The seventeenth century poet Michael Drayton asserted was the emblem borne by men from the county at the Battle of Agincourt. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #CountyFlags 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The County of #Worcester is a shire in the Midlands. #Worcestershire is a mixture of the very rural and the very urban. In the centre of the shire is the fine cathedral city of Worcester, which sits on the banks of the River Severn. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #RealCounties 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The #Wiltshire flag features a Great Bustard (Otis tarda) at its centre. A bird native to the county, it had been extinct since 1832. However, it was recently returned as part of an intensive 10-year breeding programme on Salisbury Plain. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #CountyFlags 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Wiltshire is a county of the West Country. Wholly landlocked, it has borders with five other counties. #Wiltshire is characterised by its high downland and wide valleys. Salisbury Plain lies in the heart of Wiltshire. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #RealCounties 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Today is #HuntingdonshireDay! Celebrated on the birth date of Oliver Cromwell, #Huntingdonshire’s most famous son. A museum dedicated to Cromwell is located in the former grammar school attended by both Oliver Cromwell and Samuel Pepys. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #CountyDays 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The County of #Wigtown is a shire in the south-western corner of Scotland. #Wigtownshire is also known as West Galloway. (Galloway being formed by Wigtownshire and neighbouring Kirkcudbrightshire together.) 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #RealCounties 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The County of #Westmorland is a mountainous shire, with some of the grandest scenery of the land. Almost entirely rural, it is dotted with small villages and modest towns in the dales, each looking up at the fells. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #RealCounties 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The #Westmorland flag was registered in 2011. The two red bars on white are from the arms of the de Lancaster family, Barons of #Kendal. The heraldically-stylised gold apple tree is from the 13th century seal of the borough of #Appleby. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #CountyFlags 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The County of #WestLothian or Linlithgow is a shire on the south bank and at the head of the Firth of Forth. Its county town is the royal burgh of Linlithgow, from which it takes its alternative name, #Linlithgowshire. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #RealCounties 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The #Warwickshire flag is a modern reworking of the county’s traditional emblem. This originated as the seal of the Earl of #Warwick from at least the 14th century. However, their use seems to extend further back by several centuries. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #CountyFlags 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The County of #Warwick is a shire in the Midlands. The county town is Warwick, but its largest town by far is Birmingham. This city is the heart of a vast conurbation spreading over much of #Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #RealCounties 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The County of #Tyrone is a shire in Ulster. The largest county in N Ireland, #CountyTyrone is spread over 1,218 square miles of farm, moor and mountain. The name Tyrone is derived from Irish Gaelic Tír Eoghain, meaning ‘Land of Eoghan’. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #RealCounties ☘️

The newly-registered #Sutherland flag was unveiled at a ceremony hosted by the county’s Lord Lieutenant in 2018. The combined saltire and Nordic crosses denote Sutherland’s early history as a Scottish territory under Viking control. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #CountyFlags 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The County of #Sutherland is a Highlands’ shire. A mountainous and sparsely populated county, the county town, and only burgh, is Dornoch on the Firth of the same name. Sutherland's inland landscape is rugged and very sparsely populated. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #RealCounties 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The #Sussex flag of 6 gold martlets is essentially a heraldic representation of a swallow on a blue background. This appeared as county emblem in a 1611 Atlas to represent the kingdom of South #Saxons, from whom the name Sussex is derived. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #CountyFlags 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The County of #Sussex is a shire on the south coast of Great Britain. The county's unofficial anthem is ‘Sussex by the Sea’ by William Ward-Higgs. Inspired by a Rudyard Kipling poem, it became a regimental march of the Sussex Regiment. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #RealCounties 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Today is #OrkneyDay! It is celebrated on the feast day of Saint Magnus, one time Earl of Orkney. His attributed banner was the inspiration for #Orkney’s county flag. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #CountyDays 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The #Surrey flag was registered in 2014. It is a banner of the arms used by the family of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey. This has a long association with the county since its first reference in 13th century Glover’s Roll of arms. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #CountyFlags 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The County of #Surrey is a shire in south-east Great Britain. Surrey's northern border is the #RiverThames. Across the Thames lies Middlesex for the most part and Buckinghamshire to the north-west. Its southern border is with Sussex. 🇬🇧 #HistoricCounties | #RealCounties 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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