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Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a town in Dumfries as well as Galloway, south-western Scotland. It lies roughly 75 miles (121 kilometres) from Glasgow, and also 20 miles (32 km) from the English border. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The community involved global interest in December 1988 when the wreck of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there adhering to a terrorist bomb attack aboard the trip. Lockerbie evidently has actually existed since at least the days of Viking influence in this part of Scotland in the period around 900. The name (initially "Loc-hard's by") means Lockard Community in Old Norse. The presence of the remains of a Roman camp a mile to the west of the community suggests its origins may be also previously. Lockerbie first went into recorded history in the 1190s in a charter of Robert de Brus, second Lord of Annandale, granting 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 fought Clan Maxwell at the Battle of Dryfe Sands. The Johnstones nearly eradicated the Maxwells associated with the fight, bring about the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's primary duration of development started in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone household, made plots of land available along the line of the High Street, generating essentially a semi-planned negotiation. By 1750 Lockerbie had actually come to be a substantial town, as well as from the 1780s it was a staging message on the carriage route from Glasgow to London. Probably the most vital duration of growth was during the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow road was built through Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened up the line from Carlisle to Beattock via Lockerbie in 1847 as well as later on all the way to Glasgow. From 1863 until 1966 Lockerbie was additionally a train junction, offering a branch line to Dumfries. Called the Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to travelers in 1952 as well as to freight in 1966. The town is offered by Lockerbie railway station. Lockerbie had been home to Scotland's largest lamb market because the 18th century yet the arrival of the Caledonian Railway boosted additionally its function in the cross-border sell lamb. The railway additionally created a decreasing in the cost of coal, permitting a gas works to be integrated in the town in 1855.
