Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a community in Dumfries and Galloway, south-western Scotland. It exists around 75 miles (121 km) from Glasgow, as well as 20 miles (32 kilometres) from the English border. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The community involved global interest in December 1988 when the wreck of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there adhering to a terrorist bomb strike aboard the trip. Lockerbie apparently has actually existed given that at least the days of Viking influence in this part of Scotland in the duration around 900. The name (originally "Loc-hard's by") indicates Lockard Community in Old Norse. The presence of the remains of a Roman camp a mile to the west of the town recommends its origins might be even previously. Lockerbie initially got in recorded background in the 1190s in a charter of Robert de Brus, second Lord of Annandale, granting 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 almost eradicated the Maxwells involved in the fight, bring about the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's primary period of growth started in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone family members, made plots of land available along the line of the High Street, producing essentially a semi-planned settlement. By 1750 Lockerbie had come to be a considerable community, and also from the 1780s it was a staging blog post on the carriage path from Glasgow to London. Possibly one of the most vital period of development was throughout the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow road was constructed via Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened the line from Carlisle to Beattock through Lockerbie in 1847 and later right to Glasgow. From 1863 until 1966 Lockerbie was also a train junction, offering a branch line to Dumfries. Known as the Dumfries, Lochmaben as well as Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to travelers in 1952 as well as to products in 1966. The town is served by Lockerbie train station. Lockerbie had been house to Scotland's largest lamb market given that the 18th century but the arrival of the Caledonian Railway boosted additionally its role in the cross-border sell sheep. The railway also produced a decreasing in the price of coal, permitting a gas functions to be integrated in the town in 1855.
