Lockerbie is a town in Dumfries as well as Galloway, south-western Scotland. It exists approximately 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 pertained to international focus in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there complying with a terrorist bomb strike aboard the flight. Lockerbie evidently has actually existed since at the very least the days of Viking influence in this part of Scotland in the duration around 900. The name (initially "Loc-hard's by") indicates Lockard Town in Old Norse. The visibility of the remains of a Roman camp a mile to the west of the community recommends its origins might be even previously. Lockerbie initially entered recorded history in the 1190s in a charter of Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale, giving 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 combated Clan Maxwell at the Battle of Dryfe Sands. The Johnstones nearly eradicated the Maxwells associated with the battle, bring about the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's primary duration of development began in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone household, made stories of land available along the line of the High Street, creating basically a semi-planned settlement. By 1750 Lockerbie had actually ended up being a significant town, and from the 1780s it was a staging post on the carriage path from Glasgow to London. Perhaps one of the most vital duration of development was during the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow road was developed with Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened the line from Carlisle to Beattock via Lockerbie in 1847 and also later on completely to Glasgow. From 1863 till 1966 Lockerbie was also a railway junction, serving a branch line to Dumfries. Called the Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to passengers in 1952 as well as to products in 1966. The community is offered by Lockerbie train station. Lockerbie had actually been house to Scotland's biggest lamb market considering that the 18th century but the arrival of the Caledonian Railway increased additionally its function in the cross-border sell sheep. The railway also generated a reducing in the cost of coal, permitting a gas works to be integrated in the community in 1855.