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 communities are Lanark and also Peebles, and therefore Biggar serves a broad backwoods. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 estimate it had grown to 2320. The town was when offered by the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway, which ran from the Caledonian Train (now the West Shore Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Train at Peebles. The terminal as well as signal box are still standing but real estate has been improved the line running west from the station as well as the railway running east from the station is a public path to Broughton, part of the Biggar Country Path network. The brand-new Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum run by the Biggar Museum Trust opened up in 2015 and also the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only managed gas operates in Scotland. Furthermore, Biggar has Scotland's only long-term puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets household. Biggar was the native home of Thomas Gladstones, the grandpa of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid spent his later years at Brownsbank, near the community. Ian Hamilton Finlay's house as well as yard at Little Sparta neighbors in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles books, is established below. The town organizes an annual arts event, the Biggar Little Festival. The community has actually traditionally held a significant bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 local estate agent John Riley, motivated a team of Biggar locals to introduce the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the mentioned purpose of coming to be the first carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the task, covered in both regional and nationwide media, occurred at the community's annual eco forum in May 2007. The group has actually created relate to the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar team working toward carbon neutral condition for the town. This community has two institutions, one primary, and also one second. The high school, Biggar Senior high school, additionally confesses pupils from bordering small towns and villages. Biggar Primary is a small school, located on South Back Road, with a present roll of 238 pupils. Primary students have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Primary Sports Barn. The Secondary school, located on John's Financing and adjacent to the main, shares its sports centers with the primary school when the event demands it. The yearly key Sports Day is hung on the High School playing area.