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Flag

I am trying to find some reliable sources on the Bedfordshire flag. The only one so far I found is this news story of the flag being flown in 2010. [1] I can't find anything reliable on the flag's history or meaning. The flag also doesn't appear on the Flag Institute's registry of county and regional flags but I am not sure how reliable they are. Regardless I think this Wikiproject should change it's symbol from this flag to something else such as a picture of the county borders. Eopsid (talk) 14:45, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

This is my idea of what it should be changed to

A picture of Bedfordshire

Eopsid (talk) 14:52, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

The flag is an adaptation of the shield used in the Bedfordshire County Council coat of arms, which was devised in 1951 (see http://www.civicheraldry.co.uk/beds_74to09.html). The web page explains the meaning of the elements on the shield (and thus the flag), i.e. the wavy lines represent the River Ouse, the gold and red quarters come from the arms of the Beauchamps (noble family associated with the county), and the shells come from the arms of the Russells (Dukes of Bedford). Dubmill (talk) 15:28, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Opening up assessment

Hey all,

Not sure if I can expect a response lol, but I'm planning to start work on some Bedfordshire-related articles, so I've reopened the WikiProject banner and thrown some categories together. If anyone would like to collaborate on revitalising the WikiProject, I for one am willing, but in the meantime thought I should at least have the courtesy to put a notice on the talk page. Frzzl talk · contribs 22:34, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Proposed county infobox template change

A discussion is ongoing at Template talk:Infobox English county#Proposal: remove the ethnicity section which is likely of interest to this project. The original proposal is for straight removal of the ethnicity field from the template; the population field would remain. This and a modified proposal would have the same effect on Bedfordshire. A result of the change, if consented to, is the restriction of demographics, other than population to the local authority administrative sections of the county infoboxes. It has no effect on editors placing reliably sourced statistics in the body of the article. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 01:05, 15 December 2023 (UTC)