{"id":2266,"date":"2014-04-14T06:30:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T06:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:51:09","slug":"rutland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2014\/04\/14\/rutland\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Horseshoe has been used to represent the county of Rutland since at least 1784 when the emblem appeared on “A New Map of the Counties of Leicester & Rutland, Drawn from the Latest Authorities” by Thomas Conder, 1784<\/div>\n
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It seem likely that this symbol\u00a0became associated with the county as a result of the local tradition that visiting royalty, peers of the realm and noblemen would present a horseshoe to the Castle Hall in Oakham, which now houses a large and\u00a0unique collection!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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By at least 1837, the colour scheme of a gold horseshoe on a green background had become fixed. A gold horseshoe appears\u00a0in the corners of this Grandfather Clock, given to new Oakham Workhouse in 1837, as part of a “seal of Rutland<\/p>\n

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This seal was later adopted by Rutland County Council, as described\u00a0in the 1894 work \u201cThe Book of Public Arms\u201d by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies and M. E. B. Crookes…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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By 1908 Rutland Police were wearing horseshoe cap badges.<\/div>\n
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In\u00a01950 Rutland county Council was awarded arms which again included a gold horseshoe against a green field, the latter described as\u00a0representing the county’s agriculture, especially its rich pasture land.<\/div>\n

Since then many\u00a0county\u00a0organisations, clubs and businesses have made\u00a0use of the traditional Gold Horseshoe on Green to represent the county of Rutland on their insignia, labeling, and even transport!<\/p>\n

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In light of this extensive and long established tradition of representing the county by a gold horseshoe on a green background, this was the obvious emblem for deployment as the county flag and following approaches from the Association of British Counties in 2015 the Rutland Council contacted the Flag Institute to confirm that it wished to release\u00a0the design from its own arms,\u00a0to the public and to have it registered as the county flag of Rutland<\/div>\n
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It is also interesting to note that the traditional\u00a0depiction of horseshoes in the United Kingdom is with three nails on one side of the shoe and four on the other!<\/div>\n
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With thanks to Brady Ells for his extensive local research on this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Horseshoe has been used to represent the county of Rutland since at least 1784 when the emblem appeared on “A New Map of the Counties of Leicester & Rutland, Drawn from the Latest Authorities” by Thomas Conder, 1784 \u00a0 \u00a0 It seem likely that … 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":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-county-flags","category-registered-flags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","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=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}