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| • | Biggar is a burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
The town is situated in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, around 30 miles from Edinburgh along the A702. The closest towns are Lanark and Peebles, and as such Biggar serves a wide rural area. The population of the town is around 2,000.
The town was once served by the Symington, Biggar and Broughton branch rail line, which ran from the Caledonian railway (now the West Coast main line) at Symington to join the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The station and signal box are still standing but housing has been built on the line running West from the station and the railway running East from the station is a public footpath to Broughton, part of the Biggar Country Path network.
Biggar has several museums, including the Moat Park Heritage Centre, Gladstone Court Museum, Greenhill Covenanters Museum, the Biggar Gasworks Museum, the only preserved gas works in Scotland, and a puppet theatre.
Hugh MacDiarmid spent his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. Ian Hamilton Finlay's home and garden at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The fictional Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnet's Lymond Chronicles novels, is set here. The town hosts an annual arts festival, the Biggar Little Festival. The town has traditionally held a huge bonfire at Hogmanay.
Source: [wikipedia: biggar, scotland]
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