Biggar is a town as well as 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 as such Biggar offers a vast backwoods. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 price quote it had actually expanded to 2320. The town was when served by the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway, which ran from the Caledonian Train (now the West Shore Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Train at Peebles. The station and signal box are still standing however real estate 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 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 as well as the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only managed gas works in Scotland. In addition, Biggar has Scotland's only irreversible creature theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family. Biggar was the native home of Thomas Gladstones, the grandpa of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid spent his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. Ian Hamilton Finlay's residence as well as yard at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles books, is established below. The town holds an annual arts event, the Biggar Little Event. The town has actually traditionally held a significant bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 local estate representative John Riley, encouraged a team of Biggar locals to introduce the Carbon Neutral Biggar task, with the stated objective of ending up being the very first carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the project, covered in both regional and nationwide media, happened at the town's annual eco online forum in May 2007. The team has developed relate to the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar team working toward carbon neutral condition for the town. This community has two colleges, one main, and also one secondary. The secondary school, Biggar Senior high school, also admits students from bordering small towns and villages. Biggar Primary is a tiny school, located on South Country road, with a current roll of 238 pupils. Primary students have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Main Sports Barn. The Senior high school, situated on John's Loan and also beside the primary, shares its sports centers with the primary school when the celebration requires it. The annual key Sports Day is held on the High School playing area.