Biggar is a town and 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 because of this Biggar offers a vast rural area. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 estimate it had expanded to 2320. The town was when offered by the Symington, Biggar as well as 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 and also signal box are still standing but real estate has been built on the line running west from the station and also the railway 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 and the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only managed gas operates in Scotland. Furthermore, Biggar has Scotland's only long-term creature theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family members. Biggar was the birthplace 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 novels, is set here. The town hosts an annual arts festival, the Biggar Little Celebration. The community has commonly held a significant bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 local estate agent John Riley, encouraged a group of Biggar homeowners to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar project, with the mentioned aim of ending up being the initial carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the task, covered in both neighborhood and also nationwide media, took place at the community's annual eco online forum in May 2007. The group has created relate to the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar group working toward carbon neutral standing for the town. This community has two institutions, one key, as well as one additional. The senior high school, Biggar High School, likewise confesses students from bordering villages and also towns. Biggar Primary is a small school, situated on South Country road, with a present roll of 238 pupils. Main pupils have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Key Sports Barn. The High School, located on John's Loan and beside the primary, shares its sporting activities facilities with the primary school when the occasion demands it. The annual primary Sports Day is hung on the Secondary school playing field.