Biggar is a community as well as former burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest communities are Lanark as well as Peebles, and thus Biggar serves a vast rural area. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 price quote it had actually expanded to 2320. The community was once offered by the Symington, Biggar and also Broughton Train, which ranged from the Caledonian Train (now the West Shore Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Train at Peebles. The station and signal box are still standing but housing has been built on the line running west from the station as well as the train running east 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 managed gas operates in Scotland. In addition, Biggar has Scotland's only irreversible creature theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family. Biggar was the birthplace of Thomas Gladstones, the grandfather of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid invested his later years at Brownsbank, near the community. Ian Hamilton Finlay's home as well as garden at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles books, is established right here. The community holds a yearly arts festival, the Biggar Little Event. The town has traditionally held a big bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 neighborhood estate representative John Riley, encouraged a team of Biggar locals to release the Carbon Neutral Biggar task, with the specified purpose of coming to be the first carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the project, covered in both regional and also nationwide media, occurred at the community's yearly eco discussion forum in May 2007. The group has actually created relate to the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar team pursuing carbon neutral condition for the town. This town has 2 institutions, one key, and also one additional. The senior high school, Biggar Secondary school, also admits pupils from bordering villages and also villages. Biggar Primary is a little school, located on South Alleyway, with a present roll of 238 students. Primary students have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Primary Sports Barn. The High School, situated on John's Loan as well as beside the main, shares its sports centers with the primary school when the occasion demands it. The yearly main Sports Day is hung on the Secondary school playing field.