Biggar is a community as well as previous burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is positioned in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest communities are Lanark as well as Peebles, and also therefore Biggar offers a vast backwoods. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 price quote it had expanded to 2320. The town was once offered by the Symington, Biggar as well as Broughton Train, which ranged from the Caledonian Train (currently the West Shore Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The station as well as signal box are still standing but housing has actually been built on the line running west from the station and also the train running eastern from the station is a public walkway to Broughton, part of the Biggar Country Path network. The brand-new Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum run by the Biggar Museum Trust opened in 2015 as well as the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only preserved gas operates in Scotland. Additionally, Biggar has Scotland's only permanent puppet 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 invested his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. Ian Hamilton Finlay's residence as well as yard at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The fictional Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles novels, is established below. The town organizes an annual arts event, the Biggar Little Celebration. The community has actually commonly held a massive bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 local estate agent John Riley, motivated a group of Biggar locals to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar project, with the specified aim of becoming the initial carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the job, covered in both neighborhood and nationwide media, took place at the community's yearly eco online forum in May 2007. The team has actually created relate to the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable team pursuing carbon neutral condition for the town. This town has 2 schools, one main, and also one second. The high school, Biggar Secondary school, likewise confesses pupils from bordering small towns and towns. Biggar Primary is a tiny school, located on South Back Road, with a current roll of 238 pupils. Main pupils have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Primary Sports Barn. The High School, situated on John's Loan and beside the key, shares its sporting activities centers with the primary school when the event demands it. The annual main Sports Day is held on the Secondary school playing field.