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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 because of this Biggar offers a vast backwoods. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 estimate it had actually expanded to 2320. The town was once offered by the Symington, Biggar as well as Broughton Train, which ran from the Caledonian Train (currently the West Coastline Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Train at Peebles. The station and signal box are still standing but housing has actually been built on the line running west from the station and also the railway running east from the station is a public path 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 maintained gas works in Scotland. In addition, Biggar has Scotland's only permanent puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets household. Biggar was the native home of Thomas Gladstones, the grandpa of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid spent his later years at Brownsbank, near the community. Ian Hamilton Finlay's residence as well as garden at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The fictional Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles stories, is set here. The community hosts a yearly arts festival, the Biggar Little Celebration. The town has generally held a massive bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 regional estate representative John Riley, urged a team of Biggar homeowners to introduce the Carbon Neutral Biggar project, with the mentioned objective of coming to be the very first carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the task, covered in both local and also national media, occurred at the community's annual eco discussion forum in May 2007. The team has actually developed links with the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar team pursuing carbon neutral condition for the town. This town has 2 schools, one key, and one additional. The high school, Biggar Secondary school, additionally confesses pupils from bordering towns as well as villages. Biggar Primary is a tiny school, situated on South Country road, with an existing roll of 238 pupils. Main students have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Key Sports Barn. The Senior high school, situated on John's Loan and also beside the main, shares its sports facilities with the primary school when the event demands it. The yearly primary Sports Day is hung on the Senior high school playing field.