Biggar is a community and also former 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 as such Biggar serves a vast backwoods. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 estimate it had actually grown to 2320. The community was when offered by the Symington, Biggar and also Broughton Train, which ranged from the Caledonian Train (currently the West Coastline Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Train at Peebles. The station and also signal box are still standing however real estate has actually been improved the line running west from the station and also the railway running east 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 the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only preserved gas works in Scotland. In addition, Biggar has Scotland's only irreversible creature theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets household. Biggar was the birthplace of Thomas Gladstones, the grandfather of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid invested his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. Ian Hamilton Finlay's house as well as garden at Little Sparta neighbors in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles novels, is established below. The town holds a yearly arts event, the Biggar Little Event. The town has actually traditionally held a huge bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 neighborhood estate agent John Riley, encouraged a team of Biggar citizens to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar task, with the stated objective of coming to be the initial carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the task, covered in both local and also national media, happened at the town's yearly eco online forum in May 2007. The team has developed relate to the town of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable team pursuing carbon neutral condition for the community. This community has two institutions, one key, and also one additional. The secondary school, Biggar Secondary school, additionally confesses pupils from bordering small towns and also towns. Biggar Primary is a tiny school, located on South Alley, with a present roll of 238 students. Key pupils have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Main Sports Barn. The Secondary school, located on John's Financing and also adjacent to the key, shares its sporting activities facilities with the primary school when the occasion demands it. The annual main Sports Day is hung on the Senior high school playing area.