| Biggar is a market town in South Lanarkshire, which is | | | | There is the Moat Park Heritage Centre, Greenhill |
| in Scotland. At 200m above sea level, it is near the | | | | covenanters Museum, Gladstone Court Museum and |
| River Clyde. It is a pretty rural area with only about | | | | the Biggar Gasworks Museum. The last is the only |
| two thousand residents. Just because it is rural, | | | | gas works still preserved in Scotland today. It made |
| though, don't think it is boring with nothing to do. | | | | gas from coal from 1836 to 1973. The Biggar |
| That couldn't be more farther from the truth. | | | | Museum Trust takes care of the museums. |
| Its history runs deeps with the Symington, Biggar | | | | Some famous people that have lived in Biggar are |
| and Broughton Railway. It ran from 1860 to 1953. | | | | Hugh MacDiarmid and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Dorothy |
| The signal box and station are actually still there but | | | | Dunnetts books are set in Biggar. The town is |
| the line has been built over. There are now houses | | | | beautifully described in her novels. It is quite a popular |
| on top of the old rail line. | | | | town for such a low population. |
| To document its past, Biggar has a few museums. | | | | |