Today is #Middlesex Day !
Celebrated on the date of the Battle of Albuerra, in which the #Middlesex Regiment distinguished themselves.
The Regiment was part of the British forces fighting under the Duke of Wellington against Napoleon.
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Today is #Northamptonshire Day .
Celebrated on the feast of St Crispin, patron saint of cobblers, #Northamptonshire is famously a centre of shoe making.
This date was selected in a public vote held alongside the county flag competition.
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Today is #WestRiding Day .
The #WestRiding of #Yorkshire is the largest, most populous of the three ridings and the Riding with the greatest internal contrast.
The flag features a ‘rose-en-soleil’ device first used by Edward IV.
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Today is #Somerset Day !
This celebration is in honour of King Alfred.
It commemorates his gathering of the #Somerset people, to battle and defeat the invading Danes in May 878.
By the time of his death he was the dominant ruler in England.
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Today is #Staffordshire Day !
This county day falls on the anniversary of #JosiahWedgwood setting up his pottery company in 1759.
The first official #Staffordshire Day took place in 2016, the year the county turned 1,000 years old.
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Today is #Shropshire Day !
#Shropshire celebrates on the feast day of St Milburga, Abbess of Wenlock priory, who died on this day in 715.
The Abbey ruins stand in Much Wenlock and offer a tantalising glimpse into life in St Milburga’s time.
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Today is #Cheshire Day !
It is celebrated on the day in 1300 when King Edward I confirmed a charter of liberties for #Cheshire .
The ‘Earldom of Chester’ secured its own Magna Carta because it was then governed as a distinct feudal domain.
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Today is #Huntingdonshire Day !
Celebrated on the birth date of Oliver Cromwell, #Huntingdonshire ’s most famous son.
A museum dedicated to Cromwell is located in the former grammar school attended by both Oliver Cromwell and Samuel Pepys.
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Today is #Orkney Day !
It is celebrated on the feast day of Saint Magnus, one time Earl of Orkney.
His attributed banner was the inspiration for #Orkney ’s county flag.
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Today is #CountyDurham Day !
Celebrated on the date of Saint Cuthbert’s death, whose famed pectoral cross features on the #CountyDurham flag.
Cuthbert was born in Dunbar in about 635AD, the year that the monastery on Lindesfarne was founded.
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Today is #Bedfordshire Day !
The date was chosen as it is the birthday of celebrated #Bedfordshire son John Bunyan, preacher and author.
Bunyan was born in the village of Elstow in 1628.
His most famous book is The Pilgrim’s Progress.
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Today is #Surrey Day !
This year’s celebration takes the theme ‘Surrey from the Sky’.
This encompasses everything from some of #Surrey ’s wonderful vantage points, through to aviation and aviaries!
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Today is #Essex Day !
Celebrated on the feast day of Saint Cedd, due to the significant role he (620-664) played in #Essex ’s early history.
Cedd was appointed bishop of the East Saxons & baptised King Sigeberht’s (c.653-660) pagan successor.
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Today is #Oxfordshire Day !
It is celebrated on the Feast Day of county patron, Saint Frideswide (Frithuswith).
Living in the 8th century, her Saxon name means ‘Peace-Strong’ or ‘Bond of Peace’.
The #Oxfordshire flag was registered in 2017.
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Today is #Caernarfonshire Day !
#Caernarfonshire (Sir Gaernarfon)’s day occurs on the date of Owainn Gwynedd’s death.
Owain was the first ‘Prince of Wales’ & considered most successful of the North Welsh princes prior to Llywelyn the Great.
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Today is #Lincolnshire Day !
This day commemorates the #Lincolnshire Uprising of 1536 when Roman Catholics expressed their dissent against the establishment of the @ChurchOfEngland by King Henry VIII.
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The #WestRiding of Yorkshire consists of a largely urban south and a rural north.
Some of the loveliest of the #Yorkshire Dales are in the West Riding, including Nidderdale and Wharfedale.
The West Riding stretches out as far as Sedbergh.
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The #Cheshire Day celebration is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the traditional, geographical county of #Cheshire .
(NOT the oddly-named ‘Cheshire’ admin zone, which is something else entirely.)
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