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 therefore Biggar serves a wide backwoods. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 quote it had expanded to 2320. The community was once served by the Symington, Biggar and also Broughton Train, which ran from the Caledonian Railway (currently the West Coastline Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The station and also signal box are still standing but housing has been improved the line running west from the station as well as the train 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 maintained gas operates in Scotland. In addition, Biggar has Scotland's only irreversible creature theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family. 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 is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles stories, is established below. The community holds a yearly arts celebration, the Biggar Little Event. The community has actually traditionally held a massive bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 regional estate representative John Riley, encouraged a team of Biggar residents to release the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the stated objective of coming to be the initial carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the task, covered in both neighborhood and also national media, happened at the community's yearly eco forum in May 2007. The team has actually formed links with the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar group working toward carbon neutral condition for the town. This town has 2 institutions, one key, and one second. The secondary school, Biggar Senior high school, also admits pupils from bordering small towns and also villages. Biggar Primary is a tiny school, located on South Alleyway, with a present roll of 238 pupils. Primary pupils have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Main Sports Barn. The Secondary school, located on John's Loan and beside the main, shares its sports facilities with the primary school when the celebration demands it. The annual main Sports Day is hung on the Secondary school playing area.