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 as well as Peebles, and because of this Biggar offers a large backwoods. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 quote it had actually expanded to 2320. The community was when offered by the Symington, Biggar and also Broughton Railway, which ranged from the Caledonian Railway (now the West Coast Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Train at Peebles. The terminal as well as signal box are still standing but real estate has been improved 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 the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only preserved gas works in Scotland. Furthermore, Biggar has Scotland's only irreversible puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets household. Biggar was the birth place 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 fictional Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles stories, is established here. The community hosts a yearly arts festival, the Biggar Little Event. The town has generally held a substantial bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 neighborhood estate representative John Riley, motivated a team of Biggar locals to introduce the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the specified goal of ending up being the first carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the job, covered in both regional and also national media, happened at the community's annual eco forum in May 2007. The team has developed relate to the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar group working toward carbon neutral standing for the community. This town has 2 institutions, one main, and one additional. The senior high school, Biggar Senior high school, additionally admits pupils from surrounding small towns as well as towns. Biggar Primary is a small school, located on South Alleyway, with an existing roll of 238 students. Key students have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Primary Sports Barn. The High School, located on John's Financing and adjacent to the primary, shares its sports facilities with the primary school when the event requires it. The yearly key Sports Day is hung on the High School playing area.