Biggar is a town and also 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 and also Peebles, and thus Biggar serves a large backwoods. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 price quote it had grown to 2320. The community was when served by the Symington, Biggar and also Broughton Train, which ran from the Caledonian Train (currently the West Coastline Main Line) at Symington to sign up with the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The terminal and signal box are still standing however housing has actually been improved the line running west from the station as well as the train running eastern from the station is a public path 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 the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only preserved gas operates in Scotland. Furthermore, Biggar has Scotland's only irreversible 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 spent his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. Ian Hamilton Finlay's residence and garden at Little Sparta neighbors in the Pentland Hills. The fictional Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles novels, is set right here. The town organizes a yearly arts festival, the Biggar Little Festival. The community has actually generally held a big bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 local estate agent John Riley, motivated a team of Biggar residents to release the Carbon Neutral Biggar task, with the stated objective of ending up being the very first carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the job, covered in both local and also nationwide media, occurred at the community's yearly eco forum in May 2007. The group has actually created relate to the town of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable group working toward carbon neutral condition for the community. This town has two schools, one main, and also one additional. The secondary school, Biggar Secondary school, additionally confesses pupils from bordering towns and also towns. Biggar Primary is a tiny school, located on South Back Road, with an existing roll of 238 pupils. Main pupils have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Primary Sports Barn. The Senior high school, situated on John's Loan as well as beside the key, shares its sporting activities facilities with the primary school when the celebration requires it. The yearly main Sports Day is hung on the High School playing area.