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![[Flag of Bedfordshire]](../images/g/gb-e-bed.gif)
image by Jason Saber, 13 September 2014See also:
Bedfordshire’s flag is that used by the council which is now defunct –
similar to Middlesex and Westmorland for example. The registered version has
been slightly modified by transposing the blue and white wavy lines on the left
handside (form the observer’s viewpoint) to ensure that yellow does not touch
white and red does not touch blue. The blue is also a lighter hue to stand out
better where it touches the black central panel. The three escallops or shells
on a black field are from the arms of the Russells, Dukes of Bedford, with the
red and yellow (gold) quartered field, from the arms of the Beauchamps, the
leading family in the county after the Norman Conquest, who constructed Bedford
Castle and were granted a barony at Bedford. The blue and white wavy stripes are
a reference to the River Ouse which flows through the county and are a
traditional heraldic representation of a "water course". Thus, although a
relatively recent creation, composed in 1951, the design subsumes centuries of
local tradition, with elements that bespeak the county's history, heritage and
geography. The same design features in the badges, crests, logos and insignia of
a myriad Bedfordshire organisations.
Jason Saber, 13 September 2014
![[Flag of Bedfordshire]](../images/g/gb-e-bedcc.gif)
by Dirk Schönberger
The flag of Bedfordshire county council
is a simple
the banner of arms (obtained from
Dirk
Schönberger's website).
Falko Schmidt, 25 October 2002
See also the Department for Communities and Local Government stream on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/communitiesuk/sets/72157624821543799/with/5050801617/
where they have a set of county flags.
Colin Dobson, 2010