Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a town in Dumfries as well as Galloway, south-western Scotland. It lies around 75 miles (121 km) from Glasgow, as well as 20 miles (32 km) from the English border. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The town concerned worldwide interest in December 1988 when the wreck of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there adhering to a terrorist bomb attack aboard the flight. Lockerbie obviously has existed because a minimum of the days of Viking impact in this part of Scotland in the period around 900. The name (initially "Loc-hard's by") implies 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 also earlier. Lockerbie initially went into recorded history 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 two miles to the west of Lockerbie on 7 December 1593, Clan Johnstone combated Clan Maxwell at the Battle of Dryfe Sands. The Johnstones nearly wiped out the Maxwells associated with the fight, bring about the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's major period of growth began in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone family, made stories of land available along the line of the High Street, generating in effect a semi-planned negotiation. By 1750 Lockerbie had become a substantial community, as well as from the 1780s it was a hosting message on the carriage route from Glasgow to London. Perhaps the most essential 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 through Lockerbie in 1847 and also later completely to Glasgow. From 1863 up until 1966 Lockerbie was additionally a railway junction, offering a branch line to Dumfries. Known as the Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to guests in 1952 as well as to freight in 1966. The community is offered by Lockerbie train station. Lockerbie had been home to Scotland's biggest lamb market given that the 18th century however the arrival of the Caledonian Railway increased better its duty in the cross-border sell sheep. The train likewise created a decreasing in the cost of coal, allowing a gas works to be integrated in the town in 1855.
