Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a community in Dumfries as well as Galloway, south-western Scotland. It lies approximately 75 miles (121 km) from Glasgow, as well as 20 miles (32 kilometres) from the English boundary. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The community involved worldwide focus in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there complying with a terrorist bomb attack aboard the trip. Lockerbie obviously has actually existed given that a minimum of 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 suggests its beginnings may be even previously. Lockerbie first entered 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 looks like Lokardebi in 1306. Regarding 2 miles to the west of Lockerbie on 7 December 1593, Clan Johnstone dealt with Clan Maxwell at the Battle of Dryfe Sands. The Johnstones almost annihilated the Maxwells involved in the fight, bring about the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's major period of growth started in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone family members, made stories of land readily available along the line of the High Street, creating basically a semi-planned negotiation. By 1750 Lockerbie had actually ended up being a significant town, and also from the 1780s it was a staging article on the carriage route from Glasgow to London. Possibly the most essential duration of development was throughout 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 and later right to Glasgow. From 1863 till 1966 Lockerbie was likewise a railway junction, serving a branch line to Dumfries. Called the Dumfries, Lochmaben and also Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to travelers in 1952 as well as to products in 1966. The community is offered by Lockerbie train station. Lockerbie had actually been residence to Scotland's largest lamb market since the 18th century however the arrival of the Caledonian Railway raised further its function in the cross-border trade in lamb. The train additionally created a lowering in the cost of coal, enabling a gas works to be constructed in the community in 1855.
