Biggar
Biggar is a community and previous burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is situated in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest communities are Lanark and also Peebles, and also therefore Biggar serves 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 offered by the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Train, which ran from the Caledonian Train (currently the West Shore Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The terminal and signal box are still standing yet 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 walkway to Broughton, part of the Biggar Country Path network. The brand-new Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum run by the Biggar Museum Trust opened up in 2015 as well as the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only maintained gas works in Scotland. Furthermore, 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 community. Ian Hamilton Finlay's house and also yard at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles novels, is set right here. The community hosts an annual arts festival, the Biggar Little Celebration. The community has commonly held a huge bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 regional estate agent John Riley, urged a team of Biggar homeowners to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the specified objective of becoming the initial carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the project, covered in both local and nationwide media, happened at the community's annual eco forum in May 2007. The team has actually developed links with the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable team working toward carbon neutral condition for the town. This community has 2 colleges, one key, as well as one additional. The senior high school, Biggar Senior high school, additionally admits pupils from surrounding villages as well as towns. Biggar Primary is a small school, located on South Back Road, with a present roll of 238 students. Key students have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Key Sports Barn. The High School, situated on John's Loan and also adjacent to the main, shares its sports centers with the primary school when the celebration demands it. The annual primary Sports Day is held on the High School playing area.
