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Biggar is a town and 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 also therefore Biggar offers a large rural area. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 estimate it had expanded to 2320. The community was as soon as offered by the Symington, Biggar and also Broughton Railway, which ranged from the Caledonian Train (now the West Shore Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The terminal and signal box are still standing however housing has been built on the line running west from the station and also the train running eastern from the station is a public footpath to Broughton, part of the Biggar Country Path network. The brand-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 works in Scotland. Additionally, 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 grandpa of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid invested his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. Ian Hamilton Finlay’s residence and also 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 celebration, the Biggar Little Festival. The town has commonly held a massive bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 local estate representative John Riley, encouraged a group of Biggar homeowners to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar project, with the specified aim of coming to be the initial carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the task, covered in both regional and nationwide media, occurred at the community’s annual eco online forum in May 2007. The team has actually formed relate to the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar group pursuing carbon neutral standing for the town. This town has 2 institutions, one key, and also one additional. The high school, Biggar Secondary school, also admits students from surrounding towns as well as villages. Biggar Primary is a little school, located on South Country road, with an existing roll of 238 students. Key students have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Key Sports Barn. The High School, situated on John’s Financing and adjacent to the main, shares its sporting activities facilities with the primary school when the celebration demands it. The yearly key Sports Day is hung on the High School playing area.