Biggar
Biggar is a town as well as previous burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest communities are Lanark and also Peebles, and also thus Biggar offers a large backwoods. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 quote it had expanded to 2320. The town was once offered by the Symington, Biggar as well as Broughton Railway, which ran from the Caledonian Train (now the West Shore Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The terminal and also signal box are still standing but housing has actually been built on the line running west from the station as well as the railway running east 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 in 2015 and also the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only preserved gas works in Scotland. Additionally, Biggar has Scotland's only long-term creature theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets household. Biggar was the birthplace of Thomas Gladstones, the grandfather of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid spent his later years at Brownsbank, near the community. Ian Hamilton Finlay's home and also yard at Little Sparta neighbors in the Pentland Hills. The fictional Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles stories, is set right here. The town organizes an annual arts celebration, the Biggar Little Event. The community has actually generally held a significant bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 neighborhood estate representative John Riley, motivated a group of Biggar homeowners to release the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the specified purpose of ending up being the first carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the job, covered in both local and national media, took place at the town's annual eco online forum in May 2007. The group has developed links with the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable group pursuing carbon neutral status for the community. This community has 2 institutions, one main, as well as one additional. The high school, Biggar Senior high school, likewise confesses students from bordering villages as well as villages. Biggar Primary is a small school, located on South Alleyway, with a current roll of 238 pupils. Main students have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Main Sports Barn. The Senior high school, situated on John's Financing and beside the primary, shares its sports centers with the primary school when the celebration demands it. The annual key Sports Day is hung on the High School playing area.
