Biggar is a town and also former 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 as such Biggar serves a broad backwoods. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 price quote it had actually grown to 2320. The community was once offered by the Symington, Biggar and also Broughton Railway, which ranged from the Caledonian Train (now the West Coastline Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Train at Peebles. The terminal and signal box are still standing but real estate has been built on the line running west from the station and the train running eastern from the station is a public footpath 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 the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only managed gas operates 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 yard at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles novels, is established here. The community holds a yearly arts event, the Biggar Little Event. The community has actually generally held a huge bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 regional estate agent John Riley, urged a team of Biggar citizens to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the specified objective of ending up being the very first carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the task, covered in both local and national media, occurred at the town's yearly eco online forum in May 2007. The group has actually formed links with the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable team pursuing carbon neutral standing for the town. This town has two institutions, one main, as well as one additional. The secondary school, Biggar Senior high school, also confesses pupils from surrounding small towns as well as towns. Biggar Primary is a little school, situated on South Back Road, with a current roll of 238 pupils. Key students have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Main Sports Barn. The High School, situated on John's Financing and beside the main, shares its sporting activities centers with the primary school when the occasion requires it. The yearly key Sports Day is held on the High School playing area.