Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a community in Dumfries and Galloway, south-western Scotland. It lies approximately 75 miles (121 km) from Glasgow, and 20 miles (32 kilometres) from the English border. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The community concerned worldwide interest in December 1988 when the wreck of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following a terrorist bomb assault aboard the trip. Lockerbie obviously has actually existed considering that a minimum of the days of Viking impact in this part of Scotland in the period around 900. The name (originally "Loc-hard's by") suggests Lockard Town in Old Norse. The existence of the remains of a Roman camp a mile to the west of the community suggests its beginnings may be even previously. Lockerbie first entered recorded background in the 1190s in a charter of Robert de Brus, second Lord of Annandale, providing the lands of Lockerbie to Adam de Carlyle. It looks like Lokardebi in 1306. Regarding 2 miles to the west of Lockerbie on 7 December 1593, Clan Johnstone fought Clan Maxwell at the Battle of Dryfe Sands. The Johnstones nearly exterminated the Maxwells involved in the battle, resulting in the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's primary duration of development started in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone household, made plots of land readily available along the line of the High Street, generating basically a semi-planned negotiation. By 1750 Lockerbie had come to be a substantial town, and from the 1780s it was a hosting message on the carriage path from Glasgow to London. Maybe one of the most vital duration of development was during the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow road was built with Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened the line from Carlisle to Beattock via Lockerbie in 1847 and later right to Glasgow. From 1863 till 1966 Lockerbie was also a railway junction, serving a branch line to Dumfries. Called the Dumfries, Lochmaben and also Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to passengers in 1952 as well as to freight in 1966. The town is offered by Lockerbie railway station. Lockerbie had actually been house to Scotland's biggest lamb market considering that the 18th century but the arrival of the Caledonian Railway enhanced additionally its function in the cross-border sell lamb. The train additionally produced a decreasing in the price of coal, permitting a gas works to be built in the community in 1855.
