{"id":2473,"date":"2013-05-05T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flaginstitute.org\/wp\/flags\/wing-buckinghamshire-2\/"},"modified":"2023-10-22T11:54:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T10:54:12","slug":"horningsea-flag","status":"publish","type":"flags","link":"https:\/\/www.flaginstitute.org\/wp\/flags\/horningsea-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Horningsea (Cambridgeshire)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Horningsea Flag<\/strong> is a community flag proclaiming the unique identity of this Cambridgeshire village.<\/p>\n<p>The flag consists of a field divided vertically white and red.<\/p>\n<p>At the centre is an emblem of a potter at his wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Horningsea adopted this emblem for its village sign in 1982, and the residents association also use it as their logo.<\/p>\n<p>The Romans had numerous kilns here to exploit the local grey clay, shipping finished pots by boat to Peterborough.<\/p>\n<p>From there the pots continued across the Roman Empire \u2014 including Pompeii, where a Horningsea pot is reputedly on display.<\/p>\n<p>Residents still find shards of pottery and occasionally a whole pot.<\/p>\n<p>A swallow-tailed variant of this flag also exists and flies in the village.<\/p>\n<p>Note that since 2014 Horningsea also has a specific event flag in addition to its village flag.<\/p>\n<p>In 1214 the Bishop of Ely granted the parish to the Hospital of St John the Evangelist, now St John&#8217;s College, Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>The flag commemorates the 800th anniversary of this event.<\/p>\n<p>A red field edged in gold denotes Lady Margaret Beaufort, Founder of St John&#8217;s College.<\/p>\n<p>Upon it is the bird shown on the Hospital&#8217;s waxed seal, over the crossed keys of St Peter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Horningsea Flag is a community flag proclaiming the unique identity of this Cambridgeshire village. 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