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Lockerbie, General

Town (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Lockerbie, General

Classification Town (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 85360

Site Number NY18SW 108

NGR NY 1360 8160

NGR Description Centred NY 1360 8160

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Dryfesdale
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Annandale And Eskdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

Archaeology Notes

NY18SW 108 1360 8160

For (former) Market Cross (NY 1366 8166), see NY18SW 70.

Town whose development began c. 1730, Lockerbie boasted the largest lamb fair in Scotland, about 20,000 beasts being sold there each August, mostly for export to England.

J Gifford 1996.

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Photographic Survey (1900 - 1930)

Photographs by A Brown & Co of sites across Scotland c1900-1930

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