Biggar
Biggar is a town as well as former burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest communities are Lanark as well as Peebles, and also because of this Biggar offers a broad backwoods. 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 served by the Symington, Biggar as well as Broughton Railway, which ran from the Caledonian Railway (now the West Coastline Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The terminal as well as signal box are still standing but housing has been improved the line running west from the station and the train running east from the station is a public footpath to Broughton, part of the Biggar Country Path network. The new Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum run by the Biggar Museum Trust opened in 2015 and also the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only preserved gas works in Scotland. In addition, Biggar has Scotland's only irreversible creature theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets household. Biggar was the birth place of Thomas Gladstones, the grandpa of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid spent his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. Ian Hamilton Finlay's residence and yard at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The fictional Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles stories, is established right here. The town hosts an annual arts event, the Biggar Little Event. The town has typically held a huge bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 regional estate agent John Riley, motivated a team of Biggar locals to release the Carbon Neutral Biggar project, with the stated goal of becoming the first carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the project, covered in both neighborhood and also national media, happened at the community's yearly eco online forum in May 2007. The group has actually created links with the town of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable group working toward carbon neutral standing for the town. This town has two institutions, one key, as well as one additional. The secondary school, Biggar Senior high school, additionally confesses pupils from surrounding villages and also towns. Biggar Primary is a small school, situated on South Back Road, with a present roll of 238 pupils. Main pupils have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Main Sports Barn. The High School, located on John's Loan as well as adjacent to the primary, shares its sports facilities with the primary school when the event requires it. The annual key Sports Day is hung on the Secondary school playing area.
