Biggar
Biggar is a community as well as former burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is situated in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest communities are Lanark and also Peebles, and because of this Biggar offers a broad 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 town was as soon as served by the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Train, which ran from the Caledonian Railway (currently the West Coast Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Train at Peebles. The terminal as well as signal box are still standing but housing has been improved the line running west from the station and the railway running eastern 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 maintained gas operates in Scotland. In addition, Biggar has Scotland's only irreversible puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family members. Biggar was the birthplace of Thomas Gladstones, the grandfather of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid invested his later years at Brownsbank, near the community. Ian Hamilton Finlay's home and also yard at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The fictional Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles books, is set here. The town organizes an annual arts celebration, the Biggar Little Event. The community has generally held a huge bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 neighborhood estate representative John Riley, motivated a team of Biggar homeowners to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar project, with the mentioned aim of coming to be the first carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the job, covered in both neighborhood and also national media, took place at the community's yearly eco forum in May 2007. The group has created links with the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar group working toward carbon neutral standing for the community. This community has two schools, one key, as well as one secondary. The high school, Biggar High School, also confesses students from bordering towns and also villages. Biggar Primary is a little school, situated on South Country road, with a present roll of 238 pupils. Primary students have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Main Sports Barn. The High School, located on John's Loan as well as adjacent to the key, shares its sports centers with the primary school when the event demands it. The yearly main Sports Day is hung on the Secondary school playing area.
