Biggar (South Lanarkshire)

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Biggar
Scottish Gaelic Bigear
Biggar main street
Biggar main street
Coordinates 55 ° 37 ′  N , 3 ° 31 ′  W Coordinates: 55 ° 37 ′  N , 3 ° 31 ′  W
Biggar (Scotland)
Biggar
Biggar
Residents 2294 2011 census
administration
Post town BIGGAR
ZIP code section ML12
prefix 01899
Part of the country Scotland
Council area South Lanarkshire
British Parliament Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Scottish Parliament Clydesdale

Biggar ( Gaelic : Bigear ) is a village in the east of the Scottish Council Area South Lanarkshire or in the traditional county of Lanarkshire . It is located around 22 kilometers southeast of Lanark near the right bank of the Clyde in front of the western flank of the Culter Hills .

history

Possibly it is an early Christian site that was already in use at the time of the early Celtic Christianization. A Nikolauskirche at the site is recorded from the year 1164. Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming initiated the construction of today's St. Mary's Church, completed in 1546, as a collegiate monastery . It was supposed to be the last collegiate foundation established before the Scottish Reformation .

Near the town there was the Battle of Biggar in 1297 between William Wallace and Edward I , which the Scots won. As a sub-center in Lanarkshire, Biggar was installed as a Burgh in 1451 . Market law included the right to organize livestock markets that helped Biggar develop. Furthermore, textiles and beer were produced in Biggar. With the Biggar Gasworks , a gas works was opened in Biggar in 1839 . The coal gasification plant was operated until 1973.

traffic

The A72 ( Galashiels - Hamilton ), which runs on this section together with the A702 ( Edinburgh - St John's Town of Dalry ), forms the main thoroughfare of Biggar. It is possible that Roman troops built a bridge in Biggar during the occupation of Britain. The oldest fragments of Cadger's Brig , now used as a pedestrian bridge, date from the 13th century.

In 1860 the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway opened a station in Biggar. This was closed in 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
  2. ↑ a b c Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  3. ↑ Information from the parish
  4. ↑ Information about the museum
  5. ↑ Entry on Cadger's Brig  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

Web links

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