The map shown on the right shows the various hill walking areas at the western end of the border hills covered in this site.
- the Culters ("Cooters"),
- the Tweedsmuirs or Manor Hills
- the Ettrick Hills
- the Moffat Hills.
The map covers an area of 26 kilometers from east to west and 29.4 from north to south. The eastern edge of the map is in fact in a line due south from Edinburgh. Compared with the Galloway hills it is worth noticing how much of this map is over 300m (or 1000ft, roughly). Here we do not have distinct high ridge systems separated by deep valleys as in Galloway, but something more like a general moderately high plateau area broken into by the water systems. The water systems are noteworthy here too - with historic names such as Tweed, Annan, Ettrick and even the Clyde showing right up in the north west corner of the map.

The Annan arises at Annanhead immediately above the Devil's Beef Tub and flows south past the town of Moffat and on into the Solway. The source of the Tweed is less than 2 kilometers (a mile) away. It runs NE past Tweedsmuir and ends up on the Scottish/English border at Berwick-on-Tweed. The Ettrick joins it on it's path to the sea.
Another obvious water system on the above map is the humble Moffat Water, running SW from the watershed near Birkhill just SW of Loch of the Lowes to join the Annan below Moffat. Moffatdale, as this valley is called, is not only particularly beautiful but is also an outstanding example of the effects of glaciation with classic hanging valleys on the north side of it.