Biggar is a community and also previous burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest towns are Lanark and also Peebles, and also because of this Biggar serves a wide backwoods. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 quote it had grown to 2320. The town was as soon as served by the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Train, which ranged from the Caledonian Railway (currently the West Coastline Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Train at Peebles. The terminal and also signal box are still standing however housing has actually been improved the line running west from the station and also the train running eastern 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 the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only maintained gas operates in Scotland. Additionally, Biggar has Scotland's only long-term puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family. Biggar was the birth place of Thomas Gladstones, the grandpa of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid invested his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. Ian Hamilton Finlay's house 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 set below. The community hosts a yearly arts celebration, the Biggar Little Festival. The town has actually generally held a huge bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 regional estate representative John Riley, urged a team of Biggar residents to introduce the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the stated objective of ending up being the very first carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the task, covered in both regional and also national media, took place at the community's yearly eco discussion forum in May 2007. The group has formed links with the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar group pursuing carbon neutral standing for the town. This community has 2 institutions, one main, as well as one secondary. The high school, Biggar Secondary school, also confesses students from surrounding towns and also villages. Biggar Primary is a tiny school, situated on South Alley, with a present roll of 238 pupils. Main pupils have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Primary Sports Barn. The High School, situated on John's Financing and adjacent to the key, shares its sports facilities with the primary school when the celebration requires it. The annual key Sports Day is hung on the High School playing field.