The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Southern Uplands) Designation Order 1993
This Order designates as an Environmentally Sensitive Area an area of the Central Southern Uplands partly within the Cumnock and Doon Valley, the Clydesdale and the East Kilbride Districts of Strathclyde Region; partly within the Nithsdale and the Annandale and Eskdale Districts of Dumfries and Galloway Region and partly within the Ettrick and Lauderdale, the Tweeddale and the Roxburgh Districts of the Borders 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.