The Wainwright Outlying Fells

What counts as a Outlying Fell

The fells covered in The Outlying Fells of Lakeland (1974), Wainwright's single-volume companion to the Pictorial Guides. They ring the National Park and are generally lower and gentler than the 214.

Wainwright wrote the Outlying Fells explicitly for walkers past their hill-climbing prime, which is why the book favours shorter days on the fringe of the district. As a bagging list it is far less walked than the 214 — and several of its tops see almost no traffic at all.

OpenFell holds every GB member of this list. Heights, drops and grid references are the surveyed figures from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not the round numbers printed in older guidebooks — so a hill occasionally sits a metre either side of where you expect it.

What else the Outlying Fells count for

Most British hills appear on more than one list, so a single walk often ticks several boxes at once. Of the 116 Wainwright Outlying Fells:

• 10 also appear on Deweys.
• 1 also appear on Nuttalls.

Counted against the other lists OpenFell holds in full. Lists the site carries only part of — Marilyns, HuMPs, Simms and the rest — are left out rather than reported as a fraction of themselves.

Where they are

Every one is in England. The list spreads across 4 hill-survey regions, concentrated in Lake District S.

113 sit inside a national park: Lake District (113). Park byelaws can restrict camping and access beyond the general position for the nation.

How the heights fall

All 116 Wainwright Outlying Fells, tallest first

Hill data from the Database of British & Irish Hills v18.3 (CC BY 4.0). Drop is the descent to the hill's key col; a dash means it is not recorded in our dataset. Follow any name for grid references to ten figures, access rights, live summit weather and today's daylight.