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Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a town in Dumfries as well as Galloway, south-western Scotland. It exists roughly 75 miles (121 km) from Glasgow, as well as 20 miles (32 km) from the English boundary. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The town pertained to international focus in December 1988 when the wreck of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there complying with a terrorist bomb assault aboard the flight. 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 (initially "Loc-hard's by") suggests Lockard Town in Old Norse. The presence of the remains of a Roman camp a mile to the west of the community recommends its beginnings may be even previously. 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. 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 wiped out the Maxwells associated with the fight, leading to the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's major duration of development began in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone family, made plots of land readily available along the line of the High Street, producing basically a semi-planned settlement. By 1750 Lockerbie had actually become a considerable town, as well as from the 1780s it was a staging blog post on the carriage path from Glasgow to London. Perhaps one of the most vital period of growth was during the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow road was developed through Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened up the line from Carlisle to Beattock through Lockerbie in 1847 and later all the way to Glasgow. From 1863 till 1966 Lockerbie was also a train junction, serving a branch line to Dumfries. Called the Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to guests in 1952 and also to freight in 1966. The town is offered by Lockerbie train station. Lockerbie had been residence to Scotland's biggest lamb market considering that the 18th century but the arrival of the Caledonian Railway increased better its function in the cross-border sell sheep. The train likewise generated a lowering in the rate of coal, permitting a gas works to be built in the community in 1855.
