[[Image:Port Kale and Port Mora Bays.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Port Kale and Port Mora Bays, near [[Portpatrick]]]]As communications improved the wealth of the area improved, with the sea links to [[Ireland]], [[Glasgow]] & [[Liverpool]] both allowing the export of local farming produce (thus encouraging farming for production rather than subsistence) and also import of materials and goods not common to the area.