Sub-national Areas
Flags are often used to represent counties, cities and towns. Where these are based on a council's banner of arms they are technically for the use of the council, but they are often used to represent the wider area, including by official bodies such as the Department for Communities and Local Government. Some local authorities have officially recorded that their banners of arms can be used for this purpose, though since 2012 it has been permitted to fly a flag of any island, county, district, borough, burgh, parish, city, town or village within the United Kingdom without local authority permission or consent.
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“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)