The flag of Hertfordshire is the

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of the

English county The counties of England are areas used for different purposes, which include administrative, geographical, cultural and political demarcation. The term "county" is defined in several ways and can apply to similar or the same areas used by each ...

Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...

. The flag is a banner of the arms of

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. On 19 November 2008 the Council passed a resolution that the design is a fitting and proper emblem for the county and its people. The council subsequently registered the banner of arms as the flag of the county with the

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and it now appears on the latter's registry of local flags.

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Flag design

The blue and white wavy lines, a traditional heraldic representation of a water course, symbolise the county's many rivers while the shield and hart are taken from the arms of the Borough of

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It is a heraldic pun of Hart and ford. The Hart reclines on a yellow field, representing

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, the patron saint of Hertfordshire and first British martyr, whose

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is traditionally yellow on blue. The pantone colours for the flag are: *Blue 300 *White *Yellow 116 *Brown 70% 1405

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