Biggar
Biggar is a community as well as former burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is positioned in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest communities are Lanark and Peebles, and because of this Biggar serves a wide rural area. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 price quote it had grown to 2320. The town was once offered by the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Train, which ran from the Caledonian Train (currently the West Coastline Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Train at Peebles. The station as well as signal box are still standing but housing has been built on the line running west from the station as well as the train running eastern from the station is a public path to Broughton, part of the Biggar Country Path network. The 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 works in Scotland. Additionally, 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 invested his later years at Brownsbank, near the community. Ian Hamilton Finlay's home as well as yard at Little Sparta neighbors in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles books, is established right here. The town holds an annual arts celebration, the Biggar Little Celebration. The town has actually traditionally held a massive bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 local estate representative John Riley, encouraged a team of Biggar locals to introduce the Carbon Neutral Biggar task, with the mentioned purpose of becoming the first carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the job, covered in both regional and national media, occurred at the town's annual eco online forum in May 2007. The team has formed relate to the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable team working toward carbon neutral condition for the town. This town has 2 schools, one key, and one second. The high school, Biggar Secondary school, likewise admits students from surrounding villages and also towns. Biggar Primary is a tiny school, situated on South Alleyway, with an existing roll of 238 students. Main students have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Key Sports Barn. The Secondary school, situated on John's Financing as well as adjacent to the key, shares its sporting activities centers with the primary school when the event requires it. The annual primary Sports Day is hung on the Secondary school playing area.