Biggar
Biggar is a community and also former burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is positioned in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest towns are Lanark and also Peebles, and because of this Biggar serves a large backwoods. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 price quote it had expanded to 2320. The town was as soon as served by the Symington, Biggar as well as Broughton Railway, which ran from the Caledonian Train (currently the West Coastline Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The station and signal box are still standing yet housing has actually been built on the line running west from the station and also 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 up in 2015 and the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only preserved gas operates 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 birthplace of Thomas Gladstones, the grandfather 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 is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles novels, is established right here. The community organizes an annual arts festival, the Biggar Little Event. The town has actually typically held a big bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 regional estate representative John Riley, motivated a group of Biggar citizens to release the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the specified goal of coming to be the first carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the project, covered in both regional as well as national media, took place at the town's yearly eco discussion forum in May 2007. The group has formed links with the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable group working toward carbon neutral standing for the community. This town has two institutions, one primary, and also one secondary. The secondary school, Biggar Secondary school, additionally admits pupils from surrounding villages as well as towns. Biggar Primary is a little school, situated on South Back Road, with a present roll of 238 pupils. Key students have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Primary Sports Barn. The Senior high school, located on John's Financing as well as adjacent to the primary, shares its sports facilities with the primary school when the event demands it. The annual key Sports Day is hung on the High School playing area.
