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Biggar
Biggar is a community as well as former burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest towns are Lanark and also Peebles, and therefore Biggar offers a wide backwoods. 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 when served by the Symington, Biggar and also Broughton Train, which ran from the Caledonian Train (currently the West Coast Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Train at Peebles. The station as well as signal box are still standing however real estate has actually been built on the line running west from the station and also 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 up in 2015 and the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only preserved gas operates in Scotland. Furthermore, Biggar has Scotland's only permanent puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family. Biggar was the native home 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 garden at Little Sparta neighbors in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles stories, is set here. The community organizes a yearly arts celebration, the Biggar Little Festival. The town has actually typically held a significant bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 local estate agent John Riley, urged a group of Biggar residents to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the specified aim of ending up being the first carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the job, covered in both regional and also nationwide media, occurred at the town's yearly eco online forum in May 2007. The team has actually developed links with the town of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable team working toward carbon neutral status for the town. This town has two schools, one main, and one second. The high school, Biggar Senior high school, additionally admits students from surrounding small towns as well as villages. Biggar Primary is a tiny school, situated on South Country road, with an existing roll of 238 pupils. Key students have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Key Sports Barn. The High School, located on John's Loan and also adjacent to the primary, shares its sports centers with the primary school when the celebration demands it. The annual primary Sports Day is held on the Senior high school playing area.
