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The Synges — Tim Synge (2025)

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The Synges · Tim Synge, 2025

The Synges.

The Synges are every Lake District summit over 300 m (1,000 ft) within the National Park — 670 tops, including all 214 Wainwrights — as set out in Tim Synge's book. It began as one walker's private study: frustrated that Wainwright's 214 left out so many worthwhile summits, Synge compiled his own complete list, first published in 1995 as The Lakeland Summits. Years later, online baggers adopted it and “the Synges” entered the canon of recognised hill lists alongside the Wainwrights and Birketts, now tracked by the Database of British and Irish Hills and the Long Distance Walkers Association. The 2025 edition revises the original 646 to a challenging 670. With no pre-ordained routes, bagging them is as much about devising your own lines as ticking summits — and it takes you well off the beaten track.

501
Lakeland, of 670 in Britain
978 m
highest · Scafell Pike
2025
first published
About the list
The Synges by Tim Synge

The Synges are every Lake District summit over 300 m (1,000 ft) within the National Park — 670 tops, including all 214 Wainwrights — as set out in Tim Synge's book. It began as one walker's private study: frustrated that Wainwright's 214 left out so many worthwhile summits, Synge compiled his own complete list, first published in 1995 as The Lakeland Summits. Years later, online baggers adopted it and “the Synges” entered the canon of recognised hill lists alongside the Wainwrights and Birketts, now tracked by the Database of British and Irish Hills and the Long Distance Walkers Association. The 2025 edition revises the original 646 to a challenging 670. With no pre-ordained routes, bagging them is as much about devising your own lines as ticking summits — and it takes you well off the beaten track.

About the author

Tim Synge has walked in the Lake District since the age of sixteen, when he became hooked on the Wainwrights. His curiosity about the fells Wainwright left out led to The Lakeland Summits (1995), a personal survey he never expected anyone to read; its adoption by the hill-bagging community turned his list into a recognised round, updated thirty years on as The Synges.

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2))433 mBirkett Walna Scar621 mBirkett Wandope774 mWainwrightBirkett Wansfell Pike484 mBirkett Wasdale Pike565 mBirkett Watches333 mBirkett Watendlath Fell (Long Moss)515 mBirkett Water Crag305 mBirkett Watermillock Fell (Little Mell Fell South Top)424 mBirkett Watson's Dodd789 mWainwrightBirkett Wether Hill672 mWainwrightBirkett Wetherlam763 mWainwrightBirkett Whatshaw Common490 mBirkett Whin Rigg (Wasdale)537 mWainwrightBirkett Whinlatter (Brown How - Whinlatter)517 mWainwrightBirkett Whinlatter Top525 mBirkett White Hall Knott311 mBirkett White Howe (Bannisdale)530 mBirkett White Maiden613 mBirkett White Pike (Birkby Fell)442 mBirkett White Pike (Seathwaite)600 mBirkett White Side863 mWainwrightBirkett White Stones - The Band568 mBirkett Whiteless Pike660 mWainwrightBirkett Whiteside (Whiteside West Top)707 mWainwrightBirkett Whiteside East Top (Whiteside) (Gasgale Crags)719 mBirkett Whiteside Pike397 mBirkett Whitfell573 mBirkett Whoap511 mBirkett Woodend Height489 mBirkett Wythburn Fell508 mBirkett Yew Bank499 mBirkett Yewbarrow629 mWainwrightBirkett Yewbarrow North Top (Stirrup Crag)617 mBirkett Yoadcastle494 mBirkett Yoke707 mWainwrightBirkett

This page lists the 501 fells on this list that have a guide on the site — not the full national list of 670. New to the lists? See how the fell lists differ.

Common questions

How many Synges are there?
Around 670 across Britain; 501 of them lie in the Lake District and have a walking guide here.
Which is the highest?
Scafell Pike, at 978 m.
Who created the Synges?
Tim Synge, in The Synges (2025).