Biggar is a community and previous burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest towns are Lanark and also Peebles, and because of this Biggar offers a large rural area. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 quote it had grown to 2320. The community was as soon as served by the Symington, Biggar as well as Broughton Train, which ran from the Caledonian Railway (currently the West Coastline Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The station and also signal box are still standing however housing has been built on the line running west from the station and the train running eastern from the station is a public path to Broughton, part of the Biggar Country Path network. The new Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum run by the Biggar Museum Trust opened in 2015 as well as the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only managed gas operates in Scotland. Furthermore, Biggar has Scotland's only permanent creature theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family. Biggar was the native home of Thomas Gladstones, the grandpa of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid spent his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. Ian Hamilton Finlay's residence and also garden at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles novels, is set below. The town holds a yearly arts festival, the Biggar Little Event. The town has actually generally held a massive bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 neighborhood estate representative John Riley, motivated a group of Biggar locals to release the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the specified purpose of ending up being the initial carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the task, covered in both neighborhood and also nationwide media, occurred at the town's annual eco forum in May 2007. The team has actually developed relate to the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar team working toward carbon neutral status for the town. This community has 2 institutions, one primary, and one additional. The high school, Biggar Secondary school, also admits students from bordering small towns as well as villages. Biggar Primary is a tiny school, situated on South Country road, with a current roll of 238 students. Key pupils have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Key Sports Barn. The High School, situated on John's Financing and also adjacent to the key, shares its sports centers with the primary school when the celebration demands it. The annual main Sports Day is held on the High School playing area.
