Biggar
Biggar is a community and previous burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest towns are Lanark and also Peebles, and also because of this Biggar serves a broad rural area. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 price quote it had actually grown to 2320. The town was when served by the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway, which ran from the Caledonian Railway (currently 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 but real estate has actually been built on 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 brand-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. Additionally, Biggar has Scotland's only long-term creature theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets household. Biggar was the birth place of Thomas Gladstones, the grandfather of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid spent his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. Ian Hamilton Finlay's house and also garden at Little Sparta neighbors in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles stories, is established here. The community holds a yearly arts festival, the Biggar Little Event. The community has traditionally held a significant bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 local estate representative John Riley, urged a group of Biggar citizens to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar task, with the stated goal of becoming the first carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the job, covered in both local and nationwide media, took place at the town's annual eco discussion forum in May 2007. The group has actually created links with the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable team working toward carbon neutral standing for the community. This community has two colleges, one main, and also one additional. The high school, Biggar Secondary school, additionally admits pupils from bordering towns and towns. Biggar Primary is a little school, located on South Alley, with a current roll of 238 students. Primary students have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Main Sports Barn. The High School, located on John's Financing and beside the main, shares its sporting activities facilities with the primary school when the event demands it. The yearly key Sports Day is hung on the Senior high school playing field.
