By comparison with the Galloway and Lowther Hills, these hills are much less frequented or known about except by the local populace - for whom the hills have a special place in the folk memories of the communities. There are also many more communities immediately around these hills than around either the Lowthers or the Galloway Hills and what to call this hill area would be challenged strongly by these local communities who would each wish to claim the hills for their own. Being much more readily-accessible and in general considerably less challenging than the neighbouring ranges these hills are much more lived in and used on a daily basis by the local communities. They are exploited on an altogether more casual basis, by communities which strongly identify with them.