Biggar
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 towns are Lanark and Peebles, and also because of this Biggar serves a large rural area. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 quote it had actually expanded to 2320. The community was once offered by the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Train, which ran from the Caledonian Railway (currently the West Shore Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Train at Peebles. The terminal and signal box are still standing but real estate has been improved the line running west from the station as well as 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 as well as the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only maintained gas operates in Scotland. In addition, Biggar has Scotland's only long-term creature 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 town. Ian Hamilton Finlay's home as well as yard at Little Sparta neighbors in the Pentland Hills. The fictional Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles stories, is set below. The community hosts a yearly arts celebration, the Biggar Little Celebration. The community has actually generally held a substantial bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 neighborhood estate agent John Riley, urged a team of Biggar locals to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the stated aim of coming to be the very first carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the job, covered in both regional and national media, occurred at the town's yearly eco online forum in May 2007. The team has actually formed links with the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar team pursuing carbon neutral standing for the town. This town has 2 institutions, one primary, and also one secondary. The senior high school, Biggar High School, likewise confesses pupils from bordering towns as well as villages. Biggar Primary is a little school, situated on South Country road, with a present roll of 238 pupils. Key pupils have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Primary Sports Barn. The High School, situated on John's Loan and also adjacent to the key, shares its sporting activities centers with the primary school when the occasion requires it. The annual main Sports Day is hung on the Senior high school playing area.
