Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a community in Dumfries and also Galloway, south-western Scotland. It exists roughly 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 town involved worldwide interest in December 1988 when the wreck of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following a terrorist bomb attack aboard the flight. Lockerbie obviously has existed because at the very least the days of Viking impact in this part of Scotland in the duration around 900. The name (originally "Loc-hard's by") indicates Lockard Community in Old Norse. The visibility of the remains of a Roman camp a mile to the west of the town recommends its beginnings may be also previously. Lockerbie initially got in recorded history in the 1190s in a charter of Robert de Brus, second Lord of Annandale, giving the lands of Lockerbie to Adam de Carlyle. It appears as Lokardebi in 1306. Concerning two miles to the west of Lockerbie on 7 December 1593, Clan Johnstone battled Clan Maxwell at the Battle of Dryfe Sands. The Johnstones almost eliminated the Maxwells associated with the fight, causing the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's main duration of growth began in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone family, made plots of land offered along the line of the High Street, generating basically a semi-planned negotiation. By 1750 Lockerbie had come to be a substantial community, and from the 1780s it was a hosting message on the carriage course from Glasgow to London. Probably one of the most important duration of growth was during the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow roadway was developed through Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened the line from Carlisle to Beattock through Lockerbie in 1847 as well as later completely to Glasgow. From 1863 up until 1966 Lockerbie was likewise a railway junction, serving a branch line to Dumfries. Called the Dumfries, Lochmaben as well as Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to guests in 1952 as well as to freight in 1966. The community is offered by Lockerbie railway station. Lockerbie had actually been house to Scotland's largest lamb market since the 18th century however the arrival of the Caledonian Railway boosted even more its role in the cross-border trade in lamb. The train also generated a reducing in the price of coal, enabling a gas functions to be constructed in the community in 1855.
