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Biggar
Biggar is a town as well as 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 as well as Peebles, and therefore Biggar offers a broad 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 community was when served by the Symington, Biggar as well as Broughton Railway, which ranged from the Caledonian Train (currently the West Coast Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Train at Peebles. The station and signal box are still standing yet real estate has actually 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 and also the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only preserved gas operates in Scotland. In addition, Biggar has Scotland's only permanent puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets household. Biggar was the birth place of Thomas Gladstones, the grandfather of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid invested his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. 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 below. The town hosts an annual arts event, the Biggar Little Event. The community has actually typically held a massive bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 neighborhood estate agent John Riley, motivated a group of Biggar homeowners to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar task, with the stated objective of ending up being the initial carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the job, covered in both local and also nationwide media, occurred at the community's annual eco online forum in May 2007. The group has actually formed relate to the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable team working toward carbon neutral standing for the community. This town has two institutions, one main, and also one secondary. The high school, Biggar High School, additionally confesses pupils from surrounding villages and villages. Biggar Primary is a small school, situated on South Back Road, with a present roll of 238 students. Primary pupils have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Key Sports Barn. The Senior high school, situated on John's Financing and adjacent to the primary, shares its sporting activities centers with the primary school when the occasion requires it. The annual primary Sports Day is held on the High School playing area.
