Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a community in Dumfries and also Galloway, south-western Scotland. It lies about 75 miles (121 km) from Glasgow, as well as 20 miles (32 km) from the English boundary. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The community involved international focus in December 1988 when the wreck of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there adhering to a terrorist bomb strike aboard the trip. Lockerbie evidently 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") 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 might be even earlier. Lockerbie first went into recorded history in the 1190s in a charter of Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale, providing the lands of Lockerbie to Adam de Carlyle. It looks like Lokardebi in 1306. Concerning two miles to the west of Lockerbie on 7 December 1593, Clan Johnstone fought Clan Maxwell at the Battle of Dryfe Sands. The Johnstones almost exterminated the Maxwells associated with the battle, leading to the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's major period of growth began in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone household, made stories of land readily available along the line of the High Street, producing essentially a semi-planned negotiation. By 1750 Lockerbie had actually become a substantial town, and from the 1780s it was a hosting article on the carriage route from Glasgow to London. Possibly the most vital period of growth was throughout the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow road was built through Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened up the line from Carlisle to Beattock via Lockerbie in 1847 as well as later on all the way to Glasgow. From 1863 until 1966 Lockerbie was likewise a train junction, serving a branch line to Dumfries. Referred to as the Dumfries, Lochmaben as well as Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to passengers in 1952 and also to freight in 1966. The community is served by Lockerbie railway station. Lockerbie had been residence to Scotland's biggest lamb market given that the 18th century however the arrival of the Caledonian Railway boosted further its duty in the cross-border trade in lamb. The train additionally created a lowering in the cost of coal, allowing a gas works to be constructed in the community in 1855.
