Biggar is a town and also previous 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 as such Biggar serves a vast backwoods. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 quote it had expanded to 2320. The community was as soon as offered by the Symington, Biggar and also Broughton Train, which ran from the Caledonian Train (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 real estate has actually been built on 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 brand-new Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum run by the Biggar Museum Trust opened in 2015 and also the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only maintained gas operates in Scotland. In addition, Biggar has Scotland's only permanent puppet 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 residence as well as garden at Little Sparta neighbors in the Pentland Hills. The fictional Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles stories, is set below. The community holds an annual arts festival, the Biggar Little Celebration. The community has actually traditionally held a big bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 neighborhood estate representative John Riley, urged a team of Biggar locals to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar task, with the mentioned goal of ending up being the first carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the task, covered in both regional and also national media, happened at the community's annual eco forum in May 2007. The team has formed relate to the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar team working toward carbon neutral status for the town. This community has two schools, one primary, and also one additional. The secondary school, Biggar Secondary school, additionally confesses students from surrounding small towns and also towns. Biggar Primary is a tiny school, situated on South Alley, with an existing roll of 238 pupils. Primary pupils have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Primary Sports Barn. The High School, located on John's Loan and also beside the key, shares its sports facilities with the primary school when the occasion requires it. The annual key Sports Day is held on the Secondary school playing area.