Editing Lancashire (section)

=== Symbols ===
{{See also|Flag of Lancashire}}[[File:Lancashire County Flag.svg|thumb|The flag designed to represent Lancashire]]
The [[Red Rose of Lancaster]] is the [[county flower]] found on the county's heraldic badge and flag. The rose was a symbol of the [[House of Lancaster]], immortalised in the verse "In the battle for England's head/[[House of York|York]] was white, Lancaster red" (referring to the 15th-century [[Wars of the Roses]]). 

A flag consisting of a red rose on a gold field was designed by the [[Friends of Real Lancashire]], a pressure group which promotes the historic county, and registered with the [[Flag Institute]], a vexillological charity, in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lancashire Flag |url=http://www.forl.co.uk/online-resources/lancashire-flag |access-date=2024-03-19 |website=[[Friends of Real Lancashire]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lancashire |url=https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/flags/lancashire-flag/ |access-date=2024-03-19 |website=[[Flag Institute]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> The flag has been flown from public buildings within the historic county boundaries on [[Lancashire Day]] (27 November), including from [[County Hall, Preston|County Hall]] in [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Moffatt |first=Andy |date=27 November 2022 |title=Lancashire Day: council council's chairman hails "friendliness and community spirit" of the Red Rose county |url=https://www.lep.co.uk/news/people/lancashire-day-council-councils-chairman-hails-friendliness-and-community-spirit-of-the-red-rose-county-3932280 |work=Lancashire Post}}</ref> [[St Helens Town Hall]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-11-27 |title=Red Rose flag flies as St Helens celebrates Lancashire Day |url=https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/14108004.red-rose-flag-flies-as-st-helens-celebrates-lancashire-day/ |access-date=2023-12-11 |website=St Helens Star |language=en}}</ref> and in parts of the [[Metropolitan Borough of Oldham]] which were previously in Lancashire.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-16 |title=Flag flying policy {{!}} Oldham Council |url=https://www.oldham.gov.uk/homepage/1251/flag_flying_policy |access-date=2024-06-12 |archive-date=16 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816135812/https://www.oldham.gov.uk/homepage/1251/flag_flying_policy |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-30 |title=Surprise after council does not fly flag on Lancashire Day |url=https://www.theoldhamtimes.co.uk/news/23956689.lancashire-day-surprise-council-not-fly-flag/ |access-date=2024-06-12 |website=The Oldham Times |language=en}}</ref> It has also been flown from the [[Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities|Ministry for Housing, Communities, and Local Government]] building in London.

An alternative flag consists of a red rose on a white field. This design had already been registered by [[Montrose, Angus|Montrose]] in Scotland.<ref>{{cite news |last=Visser |first=Chris |date=29 July 2008 |title=Lancashire flag is all yellow |url=http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Lancashire-flag-is-all-yellow.4333614.jp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801170733/https://www.lep.co.uk/news/Lancashire-flag-is-all-yellow.4333614.jp |archive-date=1 August 2008 |newspaper=Lancashire Evening Post}}</ref>