Biggar is a town and also 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 Peebles, and also thus Biggar offers a wide rural area. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 estimate it had grown to 2320. The town was as soon as served by the Symington, Biggar as well as Broughton Train, which ranged from the Caledonian Train (currently the West Coast Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The station and signal box are still standing however housing has actually been improved the line running west from the station and also 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 up in 2015 and the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only maintained gas works in Scotland. In addition, Biggar has Scotland's only permanent puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family. Biggar was the birthplace 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 neighbors in the Pentland Hills. The fictional Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles books, is established here. The community hosts a yearly arts celebration, the Biggar Little Celebration. The community has commonly held a substantial bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 local estate agent John Riley, motivated a group of Biggar residents to release the Carbon Neutral Biggar project, with the stated goal of ending up being the first carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the task, covered in both local and also national media, occurred 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 comparable group pursuing carbon neutral condition for the town. This town has two colleges, one primary, as well as one additional. The high school, Biggar Secondary school, additionally confesses pupils from bordering towns and also towns. Biggar Primary is a small school, situated on South Country road, with a current roll of 238 students. Main students have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Key Sports Barn. The High School, located on John's Financing and also adjacent to the primary, 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.