The Wainwrights are the 214 fells (hills and mountains) described in A. Wainwright's seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells (1955–1966). Over two million copies of the Pictorial Guides have been sold worldwide since their publication.[1]
Visiting all 214 Wainwrights is a common form of peak bagging. The Long Distance Walkers Association maintains a register of walkers who have completed the Wainwrights; in November 2007, there were 459 people on the list, of whom 40 had completed more than once.[2] Dave Hewitt estimates that the total number of completers could be over 50% higher than the LDWA's figure.[3] The Ramblers Association reported in 2008 that a boy of six years, four months and 27 days had become the youngest person to complete the Wainwrights.[4]
The term is occasionally extended to include the fells mentioned in Wainwright's supplementary volume The Outlying Fells of Lakeland (1974), although this article only lists the original 214 fells. The said fells are listed here by book, sorted in descending order of height. See also List of fells in the Lake District for a full list in height order, and List of hills in the Lake District for more Lakeland hills.
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Book One: The Eastern Fells
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Book Two: The Far Eastern Fells
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Book Three: The Central Fells
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Book Four: The Southern Fells
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Book Five: The Northern Fells
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Book Six: The North Western Fells
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Book Seven: The Western Fells
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See also
References
- ^ "Wainwright guides saved", BBC News, 13 February 2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2761445.stm. Retrieved 22 October 2006.
- ^ Long Distance Walkers Association – Hill Walkers Register. Retrieved 7 March 2008.
- ^ Dave Hewitt, "Interlude: A few thoughts on Fellbagging" in Hewitt (ed.), A Bit of Grit on Haystacks (Disley: Millrace, 2004), pp. 87–88
- ^ "Youngster's sweet feat". Walk: the magazine of the Rambler's Association (18: Spring 2008): 15.
- Wainwright, A (1955). A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book 1: The Eastern Fells. London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN 0-7112-2454-4.
- Wainwright, A (1957). A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book 2: The Far Eastern Fells. London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN 0-7112-2455-2.
- Wainwright, A (1958). A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book 3: The Central Fells. London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN 0-7112-2229-0.
- Wainwright, A (1960). A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book 4: The Southern Fells. London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN 0-7112-2457-9.
- Wainwright, A (1962). A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book 5: The Northern Fells. London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN 0-7112-2458-7.
- Wainwright, A (1964). A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book 6: The North Western Fells. London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN 0-7112-2459-5.
- Wainwright, A (1966). A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book 7: The Western Fells. London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN 0-7112-2460-9.
External links
- The Online Fellwalking Club
- theLakelandFells
- Striding Edge
- Wainwright and his hills
- Database of British Hills
- Google Map of All Wainwrights, colour-coded to match the Pictorial Guides
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