📌 Town in Dumfries & Galloway
★★
20 miles north of the English border, Lockerbie is an important rural settlement with a history as a staging post and market town; sculptures of sheep in the centre are a nod to the local lamb market, which is still Scotland’s largest. Any visit to the town is overshadowed by one of Scotland’s saddest events in recent history – the 1988 Lockerbie Air Disaster – with a memorial garden a mile to the west paying tribute to the 270 victims of the bombing. The garden’s visitor centre has a room dedicated to the wider region, which includes worthwhile attractions such as castle ruins and picturesque lochside walks. Lockerbie’s High Street is also fairly attractive – particularly around the town hall – and we enjoyed a delicious lunch at Just Be Bistro on our most recent visit.
🌍 Location
📌 Dumfries & Galloway
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NY 137817
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.121835,-3.355300
🚶 The Garden of Remembrance is quite a lengthy, dull walk from the town centre. There isn’t much else to do without using a car or public transport.
🚆🚌 Lockerbie has a railway station on the Glasgow to Carlisle line, and reasonable bus connections from towns including Dumfries and Carlisle.
Explore nearby
<3 mi away
>> Garden of Remembrance (Lockerbie) ★★ (1 mi ←)
>> Lochmaben Castle ★★ (3 mi ←)
>> Walk: Lochmaben – Castle Loch circular ★★ (3 mi ←)
