Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a community in Dumfries and 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 involved international attention in December 1988 when the wreck of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there adhering to a terrorist bomb attack aboard the flight. Lockerbie evidently has actually existed given that 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") means Lockard Town in Old Norse. The existence of the remains of a Roman camp a mile to the west of the community suggests its beginnings may be even earlier. Lockerbie first went into 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. Regarding 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 annihilated the Maxwells involved in the fight, causing the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's main period of growth started in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone household, made stories of land readily available along the line of the High Street, generating in effect a semi-planned negotiation. By 1750 Lockerbie had actually become a substantial town, and also from the 1780s it was a hosting message on the carriage route from Glasgow to London. Maybe one of the most vital period of growth was during the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow road was built with Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened up the line from Carlisle to Beattock through Lockerbie in 1847 as well as later on all the way to Glasgow. From 1863 up until 1966 Lockerbie was also a railway junction, serving 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 served by Lockerbie railway station. Lockerbie had actually been house to Scotland's largest lamb market considering that the 18th century yet the arrival of the Caledonian Railway raised better its duty in the cross-border trade in sheep. The railway additionally created a lowering in the cost of coal, enabling a gas works to be constructed in the community in 1855.
