The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Western Southern Uplands) Designation Order 1993
This Order designates as an Environmentally Sensitive Area an area of the Western Southern Uplands partly within the Cumnock and Doon Valley and Kyle and Carrick Districts of Strathclyde Region and partly within the Nithsdale, Wigtown, and Stewartry Districts of Dumfries and Galloway Region (article 3). That area is designated for the purpose of conserving, protecting and enhancing environmental features of the area by the maintenance or adoption of particular agricultural methods.