County Days

A county day is a day to celebrate everything we love about a county, its history and heritage, its towns and villages, its landscapes and architecture, its arts and literature and, most of all, its people.

The following is a list of all the county days we know of. If you know of a county day not on our list then let us know. If your county does not currently have a county day then set one up. Start small, as all of the established county days did.

County	Date	Reason
Shropshire Day	23rd February	feast day of St Milburga
Cornwall Day	5th March	feast day of St Piran
County Durham Day	20th March	feast day of St Cuthbert
Cheshire Day	30th March	charter of liberties granted to Cheshire by Edward I
Orkney Day	16th April	feast day of St Magnus
Warwickshire Day	23rd April	birth day of Shakespeare
Huntingdonshire Day	25th April	birth day of Oliver Cromwell
Staffordshire Day	1st May	founding Josiah Wedgwood & Sons 1759
Surrey Day	Early May	Sat in early May
Somerset Day	11th May	Alfred the Great at Athelney
Middlesex Day	16th May	Battle of Albuerra
Kent Day	26th May	feast day of St Augustine
Dorset Day	1st June	feast day of St Wite
Pembrokeshire Day	1st June	unknown
Devon Day	4th June	feast day of St Petroc
Wiltshire Day	5th June	county flag first flown in 2007
Sussex Day	16th June	feast day of St Richard
Suffolk Day	21st June	longest day of year
Shetland Day	21st June	county flag recognised
Hampshire Day	15th July	St Swithun’s Day
Historic County Flags Day	23rd July	anniversary Devon Flag registration 2002
Norfolk Day	27th July	unknown
Buckinghamshire Day	29th July	Stoke Mandeville Games 1948
Yorkshire Day	1st August	Battle of Minden 1759
Northumberland Day	5th August	feast day of St Oswald
Nottingahmshire Day	25th August	royal standard at Nottingham Castle 1642
Rutland Day	13th September	Grand Assault of Gibraltar Day
Gloucestershire Day	21st September	unknown
Derbyshire Day	22nd September	county flag first flown
Cumberland Day	24th September	baptism of John Peel
Monmouthshire Day	25th September	feast day of St Cadoc
Westmorland Day	29th September	Creation of title “Earl of Westmorland”
Lincolnshire Day	1st October	Lincolnshire Uprising
Oxfordshire Day	19th October	feast Day of St Frideswide<
Northamptonshire Day	25th October	feast day of St Crispin
Essex Day	26th October	feast day of St Cedd
Lancashire Day	27th November	first Lancastrians sent to Parliament 1295
Bedfordshire Day	28th November	birth day of John Bunyan
Caernarfonshire Day	28th November	death of Owain Gwynedd