The Wiltshire flag, love it or loathe it.
Wiltshire has a flag.
Three in fact, it seems one has been accepted after a campaign by a local businessman.
The accepted one is this
The flag is produced by Mike Prior and has it’s own site here
However over at Something fishy ‘Haddock’ is not a fan, he writes
It’s a Turkey!
Mr Prior’s daughter, Helen Pocock, a graphic designer, came up with a design for the flag using the Great Bustard as the centrepiece. The bird was previously extinct in England, but is now part of a 10-year breeding programme on Salisbury Plain.
The white colouring in the flag is to represent peace, while the green can mean joy, hope or safety. A circle of six rocks is also featured in the centre of the flag, representing both the stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge and the six counties on to which Wiltshire borders. ( oh for goodness sake stop)
Jane Scott said: “We are pleased that we are able support this project. People in Wiltshire are rightly proud of their beautiful county and this flag will help to reinforce a sense of community identity.” ( people in Wiltshire would be pleased to be consulted, Wiltshire people are proud enough of their county and heritage not to have this flag foisted upon them )
Only a handful of counties in England have a flag of their own and Mr Prior hopes the Wiltshire flag could eventually become well used. ( same level of research as previously exhibited )
The flag will be flown at the front of County Hall, Trowbridge, at all times, except on official flag-flying days when the Union Flag will be flown and on days of county council meetings when the council’s own flag will fly.
The flag looks like a flag from a banana republic or the ‘house flag’ of Bernard Matthews
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And he has a point! The flag is wisht washy and, well not very good.
 A much better design is this:
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The white horse instantly cunjures up images of the beautiful county of Wiltshire and it is traditional. The flag has it’s site here
The designer Chrys fear writes:
The shape of the horse I have used in my design on the right was first published in Plenderleath’s “The White Horses of the West of England” in 1885. All I have done is put it on a green field. I do not know what copyright laws this may infringe, if any, but I must stress that this campaign is completely non-profit and that I do not aim to copyright this design for myself. I want it to be the property of Wiltshire’s people.
I think this design is a good one because it is not just a new invention; it is no modern innovation. This is already a well-recognised, traditional symbol of Wiltshire. Indeed, when I waved a home-made version of it at Glastonbury Festival 2005 I had a few people ask me if it was a Wiltshire flag, and they were people who were not even from the county - one was from Bedfordshire
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