Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a town in Dumfries and also Galloway, south-western Scotland. It exists about 75 miles (121 kilometres) from Glasgow, as well as 20 miles (32 kilometres) 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 complying with a terrorist bomb strike aboard the trip. Lockerbie apparently 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") implies Lockard Town in Old Norse. The visibility of the remains of a Roman camp a mile to the west of the town recommends its origins might be even previously. Lockerbie first went into 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 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 annihilated the Maxwells associated with the battle, leading to the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's primary 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, generating effectively a semi-planned negotiation. By 1750 Lockerbie had actually come to be a considerable town, and also from the 1780s it was a staging article on the carriage route 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 built via Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened up the line from Carlisle to Beattock with Lockerbie in 1847 and later on completely to Glasgow. From 1863 till 1966 Lockerbie was likewise a train junction, offering a branch line to Dumfries. Known as the Dumfries, Lochmaben and also Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to passengers in 1952 and to freight in 1966. The town is served by Lockerbie train station. Lockerbie had been residence to Scotland's biggest lamb market because the 18th century but the arrival of the Caledonian Railway increased additionally its role in the cross-border trade in sheep. The railway also generated a decreasing in the cost of coal, allowing a gas functions to be constructed in the town in 1855.
