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County Days

A county day is a day to celebrate everything we love about a county, its history and heritage, its towns and villages, its landscapes and architecture, its arts and literature and, most of all, its people.

The following is a list of all the county days in 2025. If you know of a county day not on our list then let us know. If your county does not currently have a county day then set one up. Start small, as all of the established county days did.

County Date Reason
Shropshire Day 23rd February 2026 feast day of St Milburga
Cornwall Day 5th March 2026 feast day of St Piran
County Durham Day 20th March 2026 feast day of St Cuthbert
Cheshire Day 30th March 2026 charter of liberties granted to Cheshire by Edward I
Orkney Day 16th April 2026 feast day of St Magnus
Warwickshire Day 23rd April 2026 birth day of Shakespeare
Huntingdonshire Day 25th April 2026 birth day of Oliver Cromwell
Staffordshire Day 1st May 2026 founding Josiah Wedgwood & Sons 1759
Surrey Day 9th May 2026 Sat in early May
Somerset Day 11th May 2026 Alfred the Great at Athelney
Middlesex Day 16th May 2026 Battle of Albuerra
Kent Day 26th May 2026 feast day of St Augustine
Dorset Day 1st June 2026 feast day of St Wite
Pembrokeshire Day 1st June 2026 unknown
Devon Day 4th June 2026 feast day of St Petroc
Wiltshire Day 5th June 2026 county flag first flown 2007
Sussex Day 16th June 2026 feast day of St Richard
Suffolk Day 21st June 2026 longest day of year
Shetland Day 21st June 2026 county flag recognised
Hampshire Day 15th July 2026 St Swithun’s Day
Historic County Flags Day 23rd July 2026 anniversary Devon Flag registration 2002
Norfolk Day 27th July 2026 unknown
Buckinghamshire Day 29th July 2026 Stoke Mandeville Games 1948
Yorkshire Day 1st August 2026 Battle of Minden 1759
Northumberland Day 5th August 2026 feast day of St Oswald
Nottinghamshire Day 25th August 2026 royal standard at Nottingham Castle 1642
Rutland Day 13th September 2026 Grand Assault of Gibraltar Day
Gloucestershire Day 21st September 2026 unknown
Derbyshire Day 22nd September 2026 county flag first flown
Cumberland Day 24th September 2026 baptism of John Peel
Monmouthshire Day 25th September 2026 feast day of St Cadoc
Westmorland Day 29th September 2026 Creation of title “Earl of Westmorland”
Lincolnshire Day 1st October 2026 Lincolnshire Uprising
Oxfordshire Day 19th October 2025 feast Day of St Frideswide
Northamptonshire Day 25th October 2026 feast day of St Crispin
Essex Day 26th October 2026 feast day of St Cedd
Lancashire Day 27th November 2026 first Lancastrians sent to Parliament 1295
Bedfordshire Day 28th November 2026 birth day of John Bunyan
Caernarfonshire Day 28th November 2026 death of Owain Gwynedd


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