Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a town in Dumfries as well as Galloway, south-western Scotland. It lies about 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 came to international focus in December 1988 when the wreck of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following a terrorist bomb strike aboard the flight. Lockerbie evidently has actually existed because at the very least the days of Viking impact in this part of Scotland in the period around 900. The name (initially "Loc-hard's by") implies 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 earlier. Lockerbie first got in recorded history 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. Concerning 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 wiped out the Maxwells associated with the battle, bring about the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's main period of development began in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone family, made stories of land offered along the line of the High Street, generating effectively a semi-planned settlement. By 1750 Lockerbie had ended up being a significant town, and from the 1780s it was a staging post on the carriage course from Glasgow to London. Possibly one of the most important duration of development was during the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow roadway was developed with Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened the line from Carlisle to Beattock with Lockerbie in 1847 and also later on right to Glasgow. From 1863 until 1966 Lockerbie was additionally a railway junction, serving a branch line to Dumfries. Referred to as the Dumfries, Lochmaben as well as Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to guests in 1952 and also to freight in 1966. The town is offered by Lockerbie train station. Lockerbie had actually been residence to Scotland's biggest lamb market given that the 18th century but the arrival of the Caledonian Railway boosted better its duty in the cross-border trade in lamb. The train also produced a lowering in the price of coal, allowing a gas functions to be built in the community in 1855.
