Biggar
Biggar is a town and previous burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest communities are Lanark and also Peebles, and therefore Biggar serves a large rural area. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 estimate it had actually expanded to 2320. The town was once offered by the Symington, Biggar and also Broughton Train, which ran from the Caledonian Train (now the West Shore Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The terminal as well as signal box are still standing however housing has actually been built on the line running west from the station and the train running eastern 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 the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only preserved gas operates in Scotland. Furthermore, Biggar has Scotland's only long-term puppet 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 home as well as yard at Little Sparta neighbors in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which includes in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles novels, is established below. The community organizes a yearly arts celebration, the Biggar Little Festival. The community has actually traditionally held a huge bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 local estate representative John Riley, encouraged a team of Biggar homeowners to release the Carbon Neutral Biggar task, with the stated goal of becoming the initial carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the project, covered in both local as well as national media, occurred at the town's yearly eco discussion forum in May 2007. The group has formed relate to the town of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar team pursuing carbon neutral standing for the community. This community has two schools, one primary, and one secondary. The senior high school, Biggar High School, additionally confesses pupils from bordering villages and towns. Biggar Primary is a small school, situated on South Alley, with a current roll of 238 pupils. Key students have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Main Sports Barn. The Secondary school, located on John's Financing and adjacent to the main, shares its sports centers with the primary school when the occasion requires it. The annual main Sports Day is hung on the Secondary school playing field.
