Biggar
Biggar is a community and also previous 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 as such Biggar serves a wide rural area. The population of the town 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 and also Broughton Railway, which ranged from the Caledonian Train (now the West Coast Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Train at Peebles. The station as well as signal box are still standing but housing has been improved the line running west from the station and the train 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 up in 2015 and also the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only managed gas operates in Scotland. Furthermore, Biggar has Scotland's only long-term puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family members. Biggar was the birth place of Thomas Gladstones, the grandpa of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid invested his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. Ian Hamilton Finlay's residence and also garden at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles novels, is established here. The community holds a yearly arts festival, the Biggar Little Festival. The community has actually typically held a massive bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 local estate agent John Riley, motivated a group of Biggar residents to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar task, with the stated objective of coming to be the very first carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the job, covered in both regional and also nationwide media, took place at the community's yearly eco forum in May 2007. The team has actually created links with the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable group pursuing carbon neutral status for the town. This community has two institutions, one main, and also one additional. The secondary school, Biggar Secondary school, likewise confesses students from surrounding villages and villages. Biggar Primary is a small school, located on South Alleyway, with a current roll of 238 pupils. Primary pupils have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Key Sports Barn. The Senior high school, located on John's Loan as well as adjacent to the key, shares its sports facilities with the primary school when the occasion demands it. The yearly main Sports Day is held on the High School playing field.