Biggar is a town and 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 also because of this Biggar offers a vast rural area. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 price quote it had expanded to 2320. The town was when offered by the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway, which ran from the Caledonian Railway (currently the West Coastline Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The terminal and signal box are still standing but housing has been improved the line running west from the station and the train running east from the station is a public walkway 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 as well as the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only managed gas operates in Scotland. Furthermore, Biggar has Scotland's only irreversible creature theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family members. Biggar was the native home of Thomas Gladstones, the grandpa of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid invested his later years at Brownsbank, near the community. 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 novels, is set below. The town organizes an annual arts event, the Biggar Little Event. The town has traditionally held a significant bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 neighborhood estate agent John Riley, encouraged a group of Biggar citizens to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar task, with the stated aim of ending up being the first carbon neutral town in Scotland. The launch of the job, covered in both neighborhood as well as national media, happened at the community's yearly eco discussion forum in May 2007. The group has actually developed links with the town of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a similar team working toward carbon neutral condition for the community. This community has two schools, one key, as well as one secondary. The secondary school, Biggar High School, also confesses students from surrounding towns as well as towns. Biggar Primary is a small school, located on South Alley, with a current roll of 238 students. Main students have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Primary Sports Barn. The Senior high school, situated on John's Loan and adjacent to the main, shares its sporting activities centers with the primary school when the celebration demands it. The yearly main Sports Day is hung on the Secondary school playing field.