Biggar (Scottish Gaelic: Bigear [ˈpikʲəɾ])[2] is a town, parish and former burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, in the Southern Uplands near the River Clyde on the A702.

Stone and Bronze-age artefacts have been found in the area but the strongest evidence of settlement occurs on the hills surrounding the town.

[3] The present day A702 follows the route of a Roman road, which linked the Clyde Valley with Musselburgh.

In the 12th century, in return for the promise of support, King David I gave the lands of Biggar to Baldwin, a Fleming leader.

The Flemings built Boghall Castle, visible as a ruin until the early 20th century, but now only represented by a few mounds.

In 1899 farmers, Thomas Blackwood Murray and Norman Fulton, located in Biggar founded Albion Motors as a small business which eventually grew into the largest truck company in the British Empire.

The singer Richard Tauber, whose wife Diana Napier was working with the Polish Red Cross, put on a special performance of the operetta The Land of Smiles during a two-week run in Glasgow.

Biggar Primary is a small school, located on South Back Road, with a current roll of 238 pupils.

[5] The launch of the project, covered in both local and national media, took place at the town's annual eco forum in May 2007.