Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a town in Dumfries and also Galloway, south-western Scotland. It lies roughly 75 miles (121 kilometres) 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 worldwide interest in December 1988 when the wreck of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there adhering to a terrorist bomb strike aboard the trip. Lockerbie obviously has actually existed given that at least the days of Viking influence in this part of Scotland in the duration around 900. The name (initially "Loc-hard's by") indicates Lockard Town in Old Norse. The existence of the remains of a Roman camp a mile to the west of the town suggests its origins might be also earlier. Lockerbie initially entered recorded background in the 1190s in a charter of Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale, granting the lands of Lockerbie to Adam de Carlyle. It looks like Lokardebi in 1306. Regarding two 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 associated with the battle, leading to the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's primary period of development began in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone family members, made plots of land offered along the line of the High Street, generating in effect a semi-planned settlement. By 1750 Lockerbie had come to be a significant town, and also from the 1780s it was a staging post on the carriage path from Glasgow to London. Probably the most important duration of growth was during the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow road was developed with Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened up the line from Carlisle to Beattock with Lockerbie in 1847 and also later on completely to Glasgow. From 1863 until 1966 Lockerbie was additionally a railway junction, serving a branch line to Dumfries. Referred to as the Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to passengers in 1952 and also to products in 1966. The community is served by Lockerbie railway station. Lockerbie had actually been house to Scotland's largest lamb market considering that the 18th century but the arrival of the Caledonian Railway boosted further its role in the cross-border sell lamb. The train additionally created a lowering in the price of coal, enabling a gas works to be constructed in the community in 1855.
