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Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a town in Dumfries and also Galloway, south-western Scotland. It exists around 75 miles (121 kilometres) from Glasgow, and 20 miles (32 km) from the English boundary. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The community involved global attention in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there adhering to a terrorist bomb attack aboard the trip. Lockerbie apparently has existed considering that a minimum of the days of Viking impact in this part of Scotland in the duration around 900. The name (initially "Loc-hard's by") means Lockard Town 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 earlier. Lockerbie first entered 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 appears as 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 wiped out the Maxwells involved in the fight, leading to the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's primary duration of growth began in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone household, made plots of land offered along the line of the High Street, producing basically a semi-planned negotiation. By 1750 Lockerbie had actually come to be a considerable community, and from the 1780s it was a hosting message on the carriage route from Glasgow to London. Probably one of the most vital period of development was during the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow road was built through Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened the line from Carlisle to Beattock via Lockerbie in 1847 and also later completely to Glasgow. From 1863 up until 1966 Lockerbie was also a train junction, offering a branch line to Dumfries. Referred to as the Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to guests in 1952 as well as to freight in 1966. The town is served by Lockerbie railway station. Lockerbie had been home to Scotland's largest lamb market considering that the 18th century yet the arrival of the Caledonian Railway raised even more its duty in the cross-border trade in lamb. The railway likewise generated a reducing in the price of coal, permitting a gas works to be built in the community in 1855.
