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County Days of Britain
Discover the dates, stories and traditions that bring our counties together.
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February
Shropshire Day
St Milburga’s feast day
March
Cornwall Day
St Piran’s Day
County Durham Day
St Cuthbert’s feast day
Cheshire Day
Confirmation of Cheshire’s charter of liberties
April
May
Staffordshire Day
The founding of Wedgwood in 1759
Surrey Day
A community celebration with an annually confirmed date
Somerset Day
Alfred’s campaign of May 878
Middlesex Day
The Battle of Albuera, 1811
Kent Day
The county-day observance of St Augustine
June
Dorset Day
St Wite’s feast day
Devon Day
St Petroc’s feast day
Wiltshire Day
The county flag’s first raising at County Hall in 2007
Sussex Day
St Richard’s commemoration
Shetland Day
A midsummer county celebration
Suffolk Day
A midsummer celebration
July
Hampshire Day
St Swithun’s Day
Historic County Flags Day
A shared celebration of Britain’s county flags
Norfolk Day
A date chosen for the modern Norfolk Day initiative
Buckinghamshire Day
The first Stoke Mandeville Games, 1948
August
Yorkshire Day
Minden Day and the white-rose tradition
Northumberland’s county days
St Oswald’s Day; a separate May celebration also exists
Traditional date · May event also documented
Nottinghamshire Day
A modern celebration linked with Civil War history
September
Rutland Day
The Great Siege of Gibraltar
Gloucestershire Day
A community celebration launched in 2020
Derbyshire Day
Launch of the county flag
Cumberland Day
The baptism of John Peel
Monmouthshire Day
The local commemoration of St Cadoc
Westmorland Day
The creation of the title Earl of Westmorland
October
Lincolnshire Day
The Lincolnshire Rising of 1536
Oxfordshire Day
St Frideswide’s feast day
Northamptonshire Day
St Crispin’s Day and shoemaking heritage
Essex Day
St Cedd’s feast day
November
Lancashire Day
Lancashire’s representatives at the Model Parliament, 1295
Bedfordshire Day
John Bunyan’s birthday
Caernarfonshire Day
The death of Owain Gwynedd
23 July · Every year
One day. Britain’s county flags.
Historic County Flags Day brings the flags of the counties together in a shared celebration. Explore how it began in 2014, why 23 July was chosen and how to join in.
Explore Historic County Flags Day →The Institute at work
Helping Parliament get the geography right.
HCI’s constituency-to-county research gives organisers a practical reference for county celebrations at Westminster. The Speaker’s Office acknowledged receipt and confirmed circulation to relevant members of the team.
Read HCI’s published account →Every county has a place in the story.
A county does not need a County Day, a council or a registered flag to have an enduring identity. The directory follows the Historic Counties Standard and the 86-county Great Britain scope used in our County Flags section.
Counties for which no established County Day was verified (48)
This records the limits of the sources checked, rather than proving that no local observance exists. Explore each county’s flag-status profile below.
- Berkshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Leicestershire
- Worcestershire
- Aberdeenshire
- Banffshire
- Berwickshire
- Caithness
- East Lothian
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Morayshire
- Sutherland
- Angus →
- Argyllshire →
- Ayrshire →
- Buteshire →
- Clackmannanshire →
- Cromartyshire →
- Dumfriesshire →
- Dunbartonshire →
- Fife →
- Inverness-shire →
- Kincardineshire →
- Kinross-shire →
- Lanarkshire →
- Midlothian →
- Nairnshire →
- Peeblesshire →
- Perthshire →
- Renfrewshire →
- Ross-shire →
- Roxburghshire →
- Selkirkshire →
- Stirlingshire →
- West Lothian →
- Wigtownshire →
- Anglesey
- Brecknockshire
- Cardiganshire
- Flintshire
- Glamorgan
- Merionethshire
- Carmarthenshire →
- Denbighshire →
- Montgomeryshire →
- Radnorshire →
Monmouthshire follows HCI’s Welsh grouping; its historical England–Wales status is not treated as unambiguous.
Sources and acknowledgements
- British County Flags: celebration history
- Historic Counties Trust: County Days
- UK Government: Celebrating the historic counties of England (2019)
- abcounties.com · county days
Research and editorial work: Historic Counties Institute. Each profile identifies its supporting sources and material qualifications. Registered flag artwork is reused from the County Flags section, with its existing Flag Institute credits. Reviewed 25 October 2026.