File:County Flag of Greater Manchester.png

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English: The County Flag of Greater Manchester is composed of ten golden castles (arranged in rows of 3-2-3-2) on a red background, fringed by a golden border in the style of a castle battlement.

The ten golden castles represent both the urban landscape of Greater Manchester, and its division in to its ten metropolitan districts: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside, Trafford, Salford, Stockport, and Wigan. The red ground represents man-power and the county's red-brick architectural heritage, both legacies of Greater Manchester's industrial past. The embattled border represents the unity and shared future of the county, and its bold, vigilant and forward-looking character.

The blazon is: "Gules, ten Towers three two three two, all within a Bordure embattled Or".

Date

19 October 2010

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Author

Jza84

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	19:10, 3 June 2012	2,000 × 1,200 (333 KB)	Jza84	ditto
	18:45, 3 June 2012	2,953 × 1,772 (505 KB)	Jza84	colours - remove erroneous black line
	16:36, 3 June 2012	2,000 × 1,200 (358 KB)	Kram4	accurate version
	23:23, 27 June 2011	2,000 × 1,200 (246 KB)	Jza84	airbrush out erroneous line
	15:51, 20 June 2011	2,000 × 1,200 (246 KB)	Jza84	seems to have no black line in the commercial version
	15:27, 16 May 2011	2,000 × 1,200 (248 KB)	Jza84	sharper version
	01:06, 24 October 2010	2,000 × 1,200 (375 KB)	Jza84	symmetrical version
	11:42, 21 October 2010	2,000 × 1,200 (181 KB)	Jza84	made turrets more symmetrical
	23:44, 20 October 2010	2,000 × 1,200 (154 KB)	Jza84	standardise pantones and fix windows to three (as per coat of arms)
	11:40, 19 October 2010	2,000 × 1,200 (190 KB)	Jza84	{{Information \|Description={{en\|1=Like the Flag of the West Midlands County.svg and the Flag of Essex, the '''Flag of Greater Manchester''' is the "coat" from the [[:File:Greater M