Lockerbie is a small town with a population of about 10,000 (as of 2004), located in the Dumfries and Galloway region in south-western Scotland. It is approximately 75 miles from Glasgow, and 20 miles from the English border.

Lockerbie is best known internationally as the site where Pan Am flight 103 crashed on December 21, 1988 after the plane exploded over town as a result of a terrorist bomb. In the British Isles the event is usually called the Lockerbie disaster, or simply "Lockerbie". Eleven townspeople were killed in the neighborhood of Sherwood Crescent, where one of the plane's wings and fuel tanks crashed to earth in a fiery explosion, leaving a huge crater.

Lockerbie Academy, the town's public high school, became the headquarters for the response and recovery effort after the Pan Am Flight 103 disaster. Subsequently, the academy, in cooperation with Syracuse University of Syracuse, New York, which lost 35 students in the bombing, established a scholarship at the university for two of its most outstanding graduating students. Each year, two graduating students spend one academic year at Syracuse University as Lockerbie Scholars before they begin their university study. The scholarships have led to a lasting relationship between the university and the town. The rector of Lockerbie Academy, Graham Herbert, was recognized in November 2003 at Syracuse University with the Chancellor's Medal for outstanding service.

Lockerbie has a well developed transport network, for a town its size. It lies next to the A74(M) Motorway and also has a Railway Station.