Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a community in Dumfries as well as Galloway, south-western Scotland. It lies approximately 75 miles (121 km) from Glasgow, and also 20 miles (32 km) from the English boundary. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The town concerned international attention in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there complying with a terrorist bomb attack aboard the trip. Lockerbie obviously has 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") suggests Lockard Community in Old Norse. The existence of the remains of a Roman camp a mile to the west of the community suggests its origins may be even earlier. Lockerbie first entered recorded background 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. About two miles to the west of Lockerbie on 7 December 1593, Clan Johnstone dealt with Clan Maxwell at the Battle of Dryfe Sands. The Johnstones nearly annihilated the Maxwells involved in the fight, resulting in the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's primary duration of growth began in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone family, made stories of land readily available along the line of the High Street, generating effectively a semi-planned settlement. By 1750 Lockerbie had actually become a significant community, and from the 1780s it was a staging article on the carriage path from Glasgow to London. Possibly the most important duration of growth was throughout the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow roadway was constructed through Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened up the line from Carlisle to Beattock with Lockerbie in 1847 as well as later completely to Glasgow. From 1863 up until 1966 Lockerbie was also a train junction, serving a branch line to Dumfries. Referred to as the Dumfries, Lochmaben and also Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to guests in 1952 as well as to products in 1966. The community is offered by Lockerbie train station. Lockerbie had been home to Scotland's biggest lamb market because the 18th century yet the arrival of the Caledonian Railway increased further its duty in the cross-border trade in lamb. The railway likewise produced a reducing in the cost of coal, permitting a gas functions to be integrated in the town in 1855.
