Biggar
Biggar is a community and also previous burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is positioned in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest towns are Lanark as well as Peebles, and also therefore Biggar serves a vast rural area. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 quote it had actually grown to 2320. The community was when served by the Symington, Biggar and also Broughton Train, which ran from the Caledonian Train (now the West Shore Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The terminal as well as signal box are still standing however real estate has been improved the line running west from the station and also the railway running eastern from the station is a public footpath to Broughton, part of the Biggar Country Path network. The new Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum run by the Biggar Museum Trust opened up in 2015 and the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only maintained gas works in Scotland. Additionally, Biggar has Scotland's only permanent puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family members. Biggar was the birth place of Thomas Gladstones, the grandpa of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid spent his later years at Brownsbank, near the community. Ian Hamilton Finlay's home and also yard at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The fictional Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles books, is established here. The community organizes an annual arts festival, the Biggar Little Event. The community has traditionally held a big bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 regional estate agent John Riley, motivated a team of Biggar locals to release the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the stated aim of ending up being the initial carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the job, covered in both local and national media, happened at the town's annual eco discussion forum in May 2007. The group has formed relate to the town of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable team working toward carbon neutral condition for the community. This community has two schools, one main, as well as one secondary. The senior high school, Biggar Senior high school, additionally confesses pupils from bordering villages and also towns. Biggar Primary is a tiny school, located on South Alleyway, with a current roll of 238 students. Key pupils have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Key Sports Barn. The High School, located on John's Loan and also adjacent to the key, shares its sports centers with the primary school when the celebration requires it. The yearly key Sports Day is held on the High School playing area.
