Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, south-western Scotland. It lies approximately 75 miles (121 kilometres) from Glasgow, and 20 miles (32 kilometres) from the English border. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The community concerned international attention in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following a terrorist bomb strike aboard the flight. Lockerbie obviously has existed because a minimum of the days of Viking influence in this part of Scotland in the duration around 900. The name (originally "Loc-hard's by") suggests Lockard Community in Old Norse. The visibility of the remains of a Roman camp a mile to the west of the community recommends its beginnings might be also previously. Lockerbie first went into recorded background in the 1190s in a charter of Robert de Brus, second Lord of Annandale, giving the lands of Lockerbie to Adam de Carlyle. It appears as Lokardebi in 1306. Concerning 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 virtually eradicated the Maxwells involved in the fight, causing the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's major duration of development began in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone household, made stories of land readily available along the line of the High Street, generating basically a semi-planned negotiation. By 1750 Lockerbie had become a substantial town, and 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 during the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow roadway was built with Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened up the line from Carlisle to Beattock with Lockerbie in 1847 as well as later on right to Glasgow. From 1863 till 1966 Lockerbie was likewise a railway junction, offering a branch line to Dumfries. Called the Dumfries, Lochmaben as well as Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to guests in 1952 and also to freight in 1966. The community is served by Lockerbie train station. Lockerbie had actually been home to Scotland's biggest lamb market given that the 18th century however the arrival of the Caledonian Railway boosted additionally its role in the cross-border trade in sheep. The train also generated a decreasing in the rate of coal, permitting a gas functions to be integrated in the town in 1855.
