If you have walked all 214 Wainwrights, you can add your name to two registers: the Wainwright Society's register of 214 Completers, and the LDWA Hillwalkers' Register. Both work on trust and ask for your last fell and its date, and either will post you a certificate if you want one.
Neither is compulsory. Plenty of people finish, raise a glass on the summit and tell nobody official. But a register entry is a permanent, public record of the round, with your first and last fells on it.
The Wainwright Society register
The Wainwright Society keeps registers for people who have climbed all 214 fells in the seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. It calls the people on its registers Completers. Its public list of 214 Completers starts with Wainwright himself in 1965 and runs in date order. Each entry shows the name, membership number, completion date, final fell, first fell and the date of the first fell.
Who can register: current members of the Society. If you aren't a member, you join first. The public list keeps the names of past members too. Membership is £15 a calendar year in the UK and £20 overseas, and if you join on or after 1 July the following year is included.
What they ask for:
- your membership number
- the name and date of your first fell
- the name and date of your last fell
That's all. The Society says members are not required to provide any proof of completion. It does welcome any description or story you want to send with your claim.
How to register: email Jane Challis at completers@wainwright.org.uk. Certificates and badges are ordered through the order form linked from the Society's completers page.
Certificate and badge: £5 each in the UK, postage included, or £10 each for the rest of the world.
The Society runs four other registers on the same lines: the Outlying Fells of Lakeland, Walks in Limestone Country, Walks on the Howgill Fells, and the Coast to Coast Walk. If you are wondering what to do next, the Outlying Fells is the usual answer.
The LDWA Hillwalkers' Register
The Long Distance Walkers Association keeps the Hillwalkers' Register, which covers hill lists across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The Wainwrights are Register 2A. Register 2 also has the Outlying Fells (2B), the Birketts (2C), the Fellrangers (2D) and, since 2025, the Synges (2E).
Who can register: anyone. You don't need to be an LDWA member, though members pay less for certificates. LDWA membership is £18 a year for UK residents.
What the claim form asks for:
- your full name, as you want it to appear on the register and the certificate
- your postal address and email address
- whether you are an LDWA member, and your membership number if so
- the register number you are claiming (2A for the Wainwrights) and the reference list you used
- your first summit, if you know it, and your last summit, which is essential
- the date you started, if known, the date you finished, which is essential, and the length of time taken
- optionally, your date of birth, gender and your age at the start and the finish
- a notes box, where you mark the number of rounds if this isn't your first
How to register: download the claim form from the register page, fill it in and email it to the Hillwalkers' Register recorder at hillwalker@ldwa.org.uk. Use one form per person, even if you finished together.
Certificate and badge: the certificate is £10 for LDWA members and £20 for non-members. A certificate with a badge is £11.50 for members and £21.50 for non-members. You pay through the LDWA shop and attach the receipt to your email. The certificate comes by post.
The published Wainwrights table lists each completer's number, name, sex, last summit, rounds last year, total rounds and the date of their first finish. It had 955 names when it was last updated on 27 November 2025. The recorder also invites photos and stories, and with your permission may publish them in Strider, the LDWA magazine.
What the registers show
Both lists are public, so anyone can count them. We parsed all 955 rows of the LDWA table, and counted the 1,645 entries on the Society's list of 214 Completers on 22 September 2026. Between them they show a lot about how people finish.
- The most common last fell depends on the register. On the LDWA's, it is Castle Crag, the lowest Wainwright: 45 of the 955 completers finished there. On the Society's, Great End leads with 101 finishes, then Haystacks with 88 and Castle Crag with 66. Many people choose a short, easy fell so that family can be there. Where people finish the Wainwrights has the full picture.
- A third or more of completions are shared. In the LDWA register, 296 of the 911 entries that give both a last summit and a full date (32%) match at least one other person's last summit and date. On the Society's list, 696 of the 1,620 entries with a full date (43%) do.
- Finishing isn't always the end. On the LDWA register, 133 of the 955 (14%) have done more than one round. Stephen Moore is on 61.
Before you send it in
Check your dates. This is where long rounds come unstuck. If you started fifteen years ago, dig out the old diary, the photos or the notebook. If a first date is lost, the LDWA form only asks for it if known. The Society asks for both, so give your best record.
Decide how you want your name to read. It goes on a public list and on the certificate. Couples who finished together send one claim each, and both entries will carry the same fell and date.
Send a few lines about the day. Neither register needs them, but both say they are welcome. Who was there, what the weather did, which pub you ended up in: in twenty years' time, that note is what makes the entry worth reading.
Where Upfell fits
Upfell, a free iPhone app, keeps a dated record of every fell you bag, which makes the first and last dates easy to find when you fill in the forms. It doesn't replace either register, and it doesn't send claims for you. The registers belong to the Society and the LDWA, and the certificate on the wall comes from them.
If you're still working through the list, doing the Wainwrights: a first-timer's guide covers planning, and how long it takes to walk the Wainwrights has the numbers.