{"id":2107,"date":"2014-03-19T00:47:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T00:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:51:09","slug":"camarthenshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2014\/03\/19\/camarthenshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmarthenshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Camarthenshire<\/p>\n

The proposed flag, illustrated by Brady Ells, is his suggestion as a flag for the county based on the quasi coat of arms which featured in the 1933 work\u00a0Civic Heraldry of England and Wales by\u00a0C.W Scott-Giles<\/p>\n

\"Camarthenshire\"<\/p>\n

used informally by the Carmarthenshire County Council, prior to the formal award of arms in 1935. The design features two avowedly Welsh symbols, a leek and a harp – the latter being apt as the county is\u00a0an important centre\u00a0of Welsh musical traditions and poetry.<\/p>\n

Whilst clearly not having a specific nor long standing\u00a0local provenance,\u00a0being rather, a combination of generic Welsh emblems, this civic insignia was also used to represent the county in a general way as demonstrated by this Carmarthenshire County Bowling Association badge,<\/p>\n

\"Carmarthenshire<\/p>\n

In 1935 the local council received a formal award of arms<\/p>\n

\"Camarthenshire<\/p>\n

which combine two Welsh dragons with\u00a0two gold lions on a quarted red and gold, counter charged field, the quarters being divided by an an\u00a0indented line. The lion and indentation are\u00a0from the arms of Rhys ap Tewdwr Mawr, King of Deheubarth, a kingdom occupying the territory of modern day Carmarthenshire,\u00a0in the eleventh century<\/p>\n

\"Rhys<\/p>\n

and it has been suggested that an armorial banner formed from these\u00a0arms\u00a0would be an appropriate flag for the modern county which occupies the territory of the ancient kingdom<\/p>\n

\"Deheubarth\"<\/p>\n

The erstwhile administration of Dyfed included the\u00a0Deheubarth, arms to signify the inclusion of Carmarthenshire as part of its territorial remit<\/p>\n

\"Dyffed<\/a><\/p>\n

so there is certainly a precedent for use of this design to represent the county, indeed the flag is flown in the county today, as seen here in flight over Carmarthen Castle<\/p>\n

\"Camarthen<\/a>
\nAn alternative design has been created by Philip Tibbetts,\u00a0taking the\u00a0shield from the later\u00a0council arms\u00a0arms as inspiration.<\/p>\n

\"PT<\/p>\n

This design\u00a0retains the same colours and indented divisions of the civic design. The county’s soubriquet of “the garden of Wales” is recalled in the inclusion in each quarter of water lillies, all suitably countercharged in red and gold. These flowers also reflect\u00a0the county’s recognition as the “Ystrad Tywi” territory i.e. “Vale of the River Twyi\/Towy”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The proposed flag, illustrated by Brady Ells, is his suggestion as a flag for the county based on the quasi coat of arms which featured in the 1933 work\u00a0Civic Heraldry of England and Wales by\u00a0C.W Scott-Giles used informally by the Carmarthenshire County Council, prior to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-county-flags","category-proposed-flags-novel-designs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}