BIGGAR, rivulet of Lanarkshire and Peeblesshire, and town and parish on south-east border of Lanarkshire.

The rivulet runs about 4 miles southward, and 5 miles eastward to the Tweed, at 8½ miles south-west of Peebles.—The town stands on the rivulet, 15¾ miles west-south-west of Peebles; consists of 2 parts, ancient and modern; was the scene of a battle between Sir William Wallace and the English and has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, 3 banking offices, 3 chief inns, a large ancient moat, a good bridge of 1873, a cruciform parochial church of 1545, a handsome United Presbyterian church of 1878, and 3 public schools with about 343 scholars. Pop. 1556.

The parish is 6½ miles long, and comprises 7272 acres. Real property in 1880-81, £14,445. Pop. 2128. The surface is partly hilly, and partly portion of a dingle extending from the Clyde to the Tweed. The seats are Biggar Park, Cambus-Wallace, Edmonston, and Carwood.

The Gazetteer of Scotland, by Rev John Wilson, 1882.