Biggar
Biggar is a community and former burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is positioned in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest towns are Lanark and also Peebles, and also therefore Biggar serves a wide rural area. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 estimate it had expanded to 2320. The community was once served by the Symington, Biggar as well as Broughton Train, which ran from the Caledonian Train (now the West Shore Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Train at Peebles. The station as well as signal box are still standing yet housing has been improved the line running west from the station as well as the railway 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 the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only maintained gas operates 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 spent his later years at Brownsbank, near the community. Ian Hamilton Finlay's home and also yard at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles stories, is established right here. The community holds a yearly arts celebration, the Biggar Little Event. The community has actually generally held a big bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 local estate agent John Riley, motivated a team of Biggar locals to introduce the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the specified aim of ending up being the very first carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the task, covered in both neighborhood and nationwide media, happened at the town's annual eco online forum in May 2007. The group has actually created relate to the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar group pursuing carbon neutral condition for the community. This town has 2 schools, one primary, and one additional. The senior high school, Biggar Secondary school, additionally admits pupils from bordering villages as well as villages. Biggar Primary is a small school, situated on South Alleyway, with an existing roll of 238 students. Key pupils have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Main Sports Barn. The High School, located on John's Financing as well as beside the primary, shares its sports centers with the primary school when the celebration requires it. The yearly primary Sports Day is hung on the Secondary school playing field.
