Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a community in Dumfries and Galloway, south-western Scotland. It lies about 75 miles (121 km) 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 town concerned global interest in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following a terrorist bomb assault aboard the trip. Lockerbie apparently has actually existed given that at least the days of Viking impact in this part of Scotland in the duration around 900. The name (initially "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 suggests its origins might be also earlier. Lockerbie first got in recorded history in the 1190s in a charter of Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale, approving the lands of Lockerbie to Adam de Carlyle. It appears as 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 virtually annihilated the Maxwells associated with the battle, causing the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's main period of growth started in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone family, made stories of land readily available along the line of the High Street, creating effectively a semi-planned settlement. By 1750 Lockerbie had become a considerable community, as well as from the 1780s it was a staging post on the carriage path from Glasgow to London. Perhaps one of the most vital period of development was throughout the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow road was constructed with Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened the line from Carlisle to Beattock through Lockerbie in 1847 and later all the way to Glasgow. From 1863 until 1966 Lockerbie was additionally a train junction, offering a branch line to Dumfries. Referred to as the Dumfries, Lochmaben as well as 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 house to Scotland's biggest lamb market given that the 18th century but the arrival of the Caledonian Railway enhanced additionally its function in the cross-border sell sheep. The railway also created a reducing in the cost of coal, allowing a gas works to be constructed in the town in 1855.
