Biggar
Biggar is a community and previous 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 Peebles, and also therefore Biggar offers a vast rural area. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 estimate it had actually expanded to 2320. The community was when served by the Symington, Biggar and also Broughton Railway, which ranged from the Caledonian Train (currently the West Coast Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The terminal and signal box are still standing but housing has been built on the line running west from the station as well as the train running eastern from the station is a public path 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 also the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only managed gas works in Scotland. Additionally, Biggar has Scotland's only permanent creature theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family. Biggar was the birth place of Thomas Gladstones, the grandfather of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid invested his later years at Brownsbank, near the community. Ian Hamilton Finlay's residence and also garden at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles novels, is established below. The town hosts an annual arts event, the Biggar Little Celebration. The town has actually typically held a huge bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 local estate agent John Riley, urged a team of Biggar citizens to introduce the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the specified objective of coming to be the first carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the job, covered in both regional and nationwide media, happened at the community's yearly eco online forum in May 2007. The team has actually created relate to the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar group working toward carbon neutral standing for the town. This community has two schools, one key, as well as one secondary. The secondary school, Biggar Senior high school, also confesses students from surrounding villages and also towns. Biggar Primary is a tiny school, located on South Alleyway, with a current roll of 238 students. Primary pupils have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Primary Sports Barn. The High School, located on John's Financing as well as beside the primary, shares its sports facilities with the primary school when the celebration demands it. The yearly key Sports Day is held on the Senior high school playing field.
