Huntingdonshire Flags – Hunting Horn Flag, Bunting & Table Flags

The Huntingdonshire flag: the hunting horn on green

The Huntingdonshire flag is a green field with a gold hunting horn hung from a ribbon tied in a bow above it. The horn is a pun on the county’s name and an echo of the royal forests that once covered it, and it was the main charge on the arms granted to Huntingdonshire County Council in 1937; the green is the colour of the Fens and the Ouse meadows. The county council was merged into Cambridgeshire in 1974 but the name was kept for the district, and the horn banner was registered with the Flag Institute as the county flag in 2009. It flies from Pathfinder House in Huntingdon and from the town halls of St Ives, St Neots and Ramsey, and our Huntingdonshire flag is that registered design.

Huntingdonshire Day, 25 April

Huntingdonshire Day is 25 April, Oliver Cromwell’s birthday, the county’s most famous son having been born in Huntingdon in 1599, and the horn is flown that day on civic buildings, schools and pubs across the district. Through the year it goes up for Huntingdon Racecourse at Brampton, the St Neots and St Ives regattas on the Great Ouse, the Huntingdon and Godmanchester carnivals, the St Neots Dragon Boat festival, Grafham Water sailing, the Ramsey 1940s weekend and the Ramsey Rural Museum, Hinchingbrooke House and Kimbolton Castle, the Hemingford and Houghton regattas, Hunts cricket at Brampton, the Huntingdon Steam Rally, Little Gidding, Wood Walton Fen and the Great Fen project, Yaxley and Sawtry, and on garden poles from Earith to Eynesbury for jubilees and coronations. The events calendar keeps the dates.

Sizes, grades and fittings

The flag is stocked in 20x12in for a hand pole, a car or a desk, 5ft x 3ft for a 6m garden pole, a pub or a riverside club, and 8ft x 5ft for a racecourse, a civic building or a tall fixed pole. Flagtex is the printed woven-polyester grade for a race day or the 25th; DuraFlag is the heavier knitted-polyester grade with reinforced hems and double stitching for a Fenland pole that gets the wind straight off the Wash. Eyelets are standard on both grades, with rope and toggle an option on the DuraFlag for a halyard. The 3ft x 2ft size is not carried for this county.

Huntingdonshire bunting

Huntingdonshire bunting repeats the hunting horn on rectangular pennants in 3m and 9m lengths. Three metres dresses a bar, a boathouse or a classroom, nine metres runs along a village hall, a cricket pavilion or a riverside terrace, and strings joined end to end will cross the market square in St Ives or Huntingdon high street for the day.

Hand flags and table flags

Huntingdonshire hand flags are 9x6in on wooden sticks for a parade, a school or the regatta bank. On the desk there is the Huntingdonshire table flag with base at 6x4in, the 9x6in wooden table flag and the satin table flag for a council chamber, a town mayor’s parlour or a dinner. Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland are under county flags.

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