You’ve climbed more than you think
Finish the 214 Wainwrights and, without ever setting out to, you will have stood on top of 91% of the Fellrangers, 42% of the Synges and over 209 Birketts. The famous lists are drawn over the same mountains, so a great many summits count more than once. Here is exactly how much they overlap.
Finish the Wainwrights, and you’ve already done…
By summit identity alone — fells that literally appear on both lists — completing the 214 also completes this much of each list:
The Fellrangers are almost a free gift — 91% of Mark Richards’ 225 fells are Wainwrights. The Marilyns (89%) and HuMPs (82%) are nearly there too, being prominence lists that pick out the big hills. The one true outlier is Wainwright’s own Outlying Fells: 0 of 115 overlap — a deliberately separate challenge on the lower, quieter ground.
And then there’s everything you walk over
That is just the summits that share a name across lists. Walk the standard routes and you pass directly across dozens more tops that don’t — minor Birketts and Synges strung along the ridges you’re already on. Across the routes we’ve mapped so far, the standard line passes directly over 38 further non-Wainwright fells (35 of them Birketts you’d bag for free), and within a short detour of 130 in total. For example:
- Blencathra via Blease Fell takes you over 4: Doddick Fell, Gategill Fell Top, Knowe Crags [Blease Fell], Scales Fell.
- Green Crag & Great Whinscale — the wild Birker Fell round takes you over 4: Birker Fell - Great Crag, Broad Crag - Birker Fell, Crook Crag, Great Whinscale.
- Coledale Round takes you over 3: Hobcarton Crag [Hobcarton Head], Kinn, Sand Hill.
These are computed from route geometry, not walked and counted — and only for the routes we’ve mapped, not all 214 lines.
So — how many have you already done?
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Open the credit calculator →Method & honesty. Fell coordinates and list membership come from the Database of British and Irish Hills; 601 unique Lakeland fells span the lists here. “Overlap” means shared summit identity — a fell on both lists — not proximity. Incidental-bagging figures are computed by buffering our route GPX and are limited to the ~60 routes we’ve mapped, so they will only grow. One open caveat: our source enumerates the Wainwright, Outlying and Birkett lists directly, with Synge/Fellranger as flags within them, so any Synge or Fellranger fell outside all three would not be counted — a cross-check we’re resolving. Every figure on this page is generated from the data, not written by hand.