Biggar
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 towns are Lanark and Peebles, and thus Biggar serves a large rural area. 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 (now the West Coastline Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Train at Peebles. The terminal and signal box are still standing however housing has been improved 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 up in 2015 and also the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only maintained gas operates in Scotland. Additionally, Biggar has Scotland's only irreversible puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets household. 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 house and garden at Little Sparta neighbors in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles stories, is set here. The community holds a yearly arts celebration, the Biggar Little Celebration. The town has actually generally held a significant bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 regional estate agent John Riley, urged a group of Biggar citizens to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar task, with the mentioned objective of becoming the very first carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the task, covered in both local as well as national media, took place at the town's yearly eco forum in May 2007. The group has formed links with the town of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable team working toward carbon neutral standing for the community. This town has two institutions, one key, as well as one secondary. The high school, Biggar Senior high school, likewise confesses students from bordering villages and also villages. Biggar Primary is a small school, located on South Alley, with an existing roll of 238 students. Main students have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Main Sports Barn. The Secondary school, located on John's Loan as well as adjacent to the main, shares its sports facilities with the primary school when the celebration demands it. The annual primary Sports Day is hung on the Secondary school playing area.