Editing Doctor Syn (section)

== Cultural legacy ==
A "Days of Syn" festival is held even-numbered years by [[Dymchurch]] residents for fund-raising. The 2006 "Days of Syn" was on 26–28 August (UK August Bank Holiday weekend) and featured a talk on Dr. Syn at the Anglican church at 6:30&nbsp;pm. On Sunday at 3 p.m. there was a church service where Dr. Syn and the cast appeared in period costume. On Monday, starting at the Bowery Hall, scenes were reenacted from ''Doctor Syn'', and again during the day along the Dymchurch shoreline and in the Ocean pub.

In 2009, discussions took place to build a 100&nbsp;ft high statue of "The Scarecrow" on a site in the centre of Romney Marsh.<ref>[http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/stone-the-crows---a-100ft-scarec-a97102/ "Scarecrow of the South"], 4 June 2009</ref> This had not been done by 2016.

Doctor Syn is also the name given to one of the locomotives on the [[Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway]].

Doctor Syn also inspired novelist George Chittenden, who captured smuggling on the Kent coast in his debut novel ''The Boy Who Led Them'', which follows the rise and fall of a smuggling gang leader further down the coast in the town of [[Deal, Kent|Deal]].

In 2009, an playfully erotic Afrikaans-language novel, ''Dagtaak'', was published pseudonymously by D R Syn. The author's name and some of the traits of the main character in this novel, allude to the Dr Syn series. Initial advances to produce an arthouse circuit movie from the novel did not come to fruition.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Two rooms in the [[The Mermaid Inn, Rye|Mermaid Inn]], [[Rye, East Sussex|Rye]] (Dr. Syn's Bed Chamber and Dr. Syn's Lounge) are named after the character.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr Syn's Bed Chamber |url=https://www.mermaidinn.com/rooms/historical-character/dr-syn-bed-chamber/ |access-date=2024-04-01 |website=The Mermaid Inn |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr Syn Lounge |url=https://www.mermaidinn.com/dsc_0211/ |access-date=2024-04-01 |website=The Mermaid Inn |language=en-GB}}</ref>