Biggar is a community and also 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 also Peebles, and also as such Biggar offers a vast rural area. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 estimate it had grown to 2320. The town was as soon as served by the Symington, Biggar as well as Broughton Railway, which ranged from the Caledonian Railway (currently the West Shore Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The station as well as signal box are still standing but housing has actually been improved the line running west from the station and the railway running east from the station is a public walkway to Broughton, part of the Biggar Country Path network. The new Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum run by the Biggar Museum Trust opened in 2015 as well as the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only preserved gas works in Scotland. Furthermore, Biggar has Scotland's only permanent puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family members. Biggar was the birthplace of Thomas Gladstones, the grandpa of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid invested his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. Ian Hamilton Finlay's home and also garden at Little Sparta neighbors in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles stories, is set here. The community organizes a yearly arts event, the Biggar Little Celebration. The town has generally held a huge bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 regional estate agent John Riley, motivated a group of Biggar residents to introduce the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the stated purpose of coming to be the first carbon neutral community 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 actually developed links with the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable group working toward carbon neutral condition for the community. This community has 2 colleges, one key, and one additional. The high school, Biggar High School, also confesses pupils from bordering towns and also villages. Biggar Primary is a small school, situated on South Alley, with a present roll of 238 students. Key pupils have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Key Sports Barn. The Senior high school, situated on John's Loan and also adjacent to the primary, shares its sporting activities centers with the primary school when the event requires it. The yearly key Sports Day is hung on the High School playing field.