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Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a community in Dumfries and also Galloway, south-western Scotland. It exists about 75 miles (121 kilometres) 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 community came to worldwide interest in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following a terrorist bomb attack aboard the trip. Lockerbie evidently has actually existed given that at least the days of Viking impact in this part of Scotland in the period around 900. The name (originally "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 town suggests its beginnings might be also earlier. Lockerbie initially went into recorded history in the 1190s in a charter of Robert de Brus, second Lord of Annandale, providing the lands of Lockerbie to Adam de Carlyle. It appears as Lokardebi in 1306. Regarding 2 miles to the west of Lockerbie on 7 December 1593, Clan Johnstone fought Clan Maxwell at the Battle of Dryfe Sands. The Johnstones almost wiped out the Maxwells involved in the battle, leading to the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's major duration of development started in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone family, made stories of land offered along the line of the High Street, generating basically a semi-planned settlement. By 1750 Lockerbie had become a considerable community, as well as from the 1780s it was a staging post on the carriage path from Glasgow to London. Maybe the most crucial 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 and later completely to Glasgow. From 1863 till 1966 Lockerbie was also a train junction, serving a branch line to Dumfries. Called the Dumfries, Lochmaben and also Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to guests in 1952 and to products in 1966. The community is served by Lockerbie railway station. Lockerbie had been home to Scotland's largest lamb market considering that the 18th century however the arrival of the Caledonian Railway increased even more its role in the cross-border trade in sheep. The train also created a decreasing in the cost of coal, enabling a gas works to be built in the town in 1855.
