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Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a town in Dumfries as well as Galloway, south-western Scotland. It exists roughly 75 miles (121 kilometres) from Glasgow, and 20 miles (32 kilometres) from the English border. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The town involved global focus in December 1988 when the wreck of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there complying with a terrorist bomb attack aboard the flight. Lockerbie obviously has actually existed given that at least the days of Viking impact in this part of Scotland in the duration around 900. The name (originally "Loc-hard's by") implies Lockard Town in Old Norse. The existence of the remains of a Roman camp a mile to the west of the community suggests its origins might be even previously. Lockerbie first got in recorded background in the 1190s in a charter of Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale, giving the lands of Lockerbie to Adam de Carlyle. It looks like Lokardebi in 1306. About 2 miles to the west of Lockerbie on 7 December 1593, Clan Johnstone combated Clan Maxwell at the Battle of Dryfe Sands. The Johnstones virtually eliminated the Maxwells associated with the battle, causing the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's primary period of development began in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone family members, made stories of land available along the line of the High Street, producing basically a semi-planned negotiation. By 1750 Lockerbie had become a significant town, as well as from the 1780s it was a hosting article on the carriage path from Glasgow to London. Maybe one of the most essential period of development was throughout the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow roadway was constructed through Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened up the line from Carlisle to Beattock via Lockerbie in 1847 and later on completely to Glasgow. From 1863 until 1966 Lockerbie was likewise a train junction, offering a branch line to Dumfries. Referred to as the Dumfries, Lochmaben and also Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to guests in 1952 as well as to freight in 1966. The community is served by Lockerbie railway station. Lockerbie had actually been house to Scotland's largest lamb market given that the 18th century however the arrival of the Caledonian Railway enhanced further its role in the cross-border trade in lamb. The train also produced a lowering in the cost of coal, permitting a gas works to be built in the community in 1855.
