Biggar is a community and also former burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest towns are Lanark as well as Peebles, and also as such Biggar offers a wide backwoods. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 price quote it had actually expanded to 2320. The community was as soon as offered by the Symington, Biggar as well as Broughton Train, which ran from the Caledonian Railway (now 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 been built on the line running west from the station and the train 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 and the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only maintained gas operates in Scotland. In addition, Biggar has Scotland's only permanent creature theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family members. Biggar was the native home of Thomas Gladstones, the grandfather of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid invested his later years at Brownsbank, near the community. Ian Hamilton Finlay's residence as well as yard at Little Sparta neighbors in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles novels, is established right here. The community hosts a yearly arts festival, the Biggar Little Event. The community has typically held a significant bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 local estate representative John Riley, motivated a group of Biggar locals to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar project, with the stated purpose of ending up being the very first carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the task, covered in both neighborhood as well as nationwide media, occurred at the community's yearly eco forum in May 2007. The group has actually formed links with the town of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable group pursuing carbon neutral status for the community. This community has 2 schools, one primary, and also one additional. The senior high school, Biggar High School, additionally confesses students from surrounding small towns and also villages. Biggar Primary is a tiny school, situated on South Alleyway, with a current roll of 238 pupils. Primary pupils have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Main Sports Barn. The High School, situated on John's Financing as well as adjacent to the main, shares its sporting activities facilities with the primary school when the celebration requires it. The yearly key Sports Day is held on the Secondary school playing area.