The Wainwrights are the 214 fells (hills and mountains) described in A. Wainwright's seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells (written from 1955 to 1966). To fly over, off or onto each of the 214 fells is a great Lake District challenge. The Wainwrights tab above provides the definitive list and the Maps tab shows them on a OS map. You might want to consider getting a copy of The Fir Tree Aerial Map of The Wainwright Fells of The Lake District which can you tick off each summit as you get it. You can buy the map here

Objective

There are 214 Wainwright summits. The aim is to fly over, land on or take off from as many summits as possible. The placement of the waypoint has been taken from the Database of British and Irish Hills which is an excellent information source (http://hills-database.co.uk). You should note that on some Wainwrights there is some dispute as to the actual top - we have taken the Hills Database as the definition.

Data

The Wainwrights are listed in the files below. If you have Google Earth installed you can get a good view of the Wainwrights by downloading and then opening the kml file. To download the file to your PC, right click on the icon and then use "Save Target As" or "Save Link As" (or similar). The kml and gpx file have been through a conversion from the WPT file.

Link
Excel Spreadsheet
Google Earth kml file
GPS Exchange Format (gpx)
CompeGPS Waypoint file

This is the definitive list of Wainwrights. In some cases there is some debate about the actual top but this list is defined in the Hills database

This map shows all of the 214 Wainwrights summits as defined in his 7 books. You can zoom in to 1:50,000 scale for more detail. Click on the marker for more detail and a link to Wikipedia

This page lists pilots who have completed all 214 Wainwrights