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Biggar, South Lanarkshire

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Biggar (Bigear) is a town and former burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. [1]

51 relations: A702 road, Albion Motors, Ashton Hayes, Biggar High School, Biggar Museum Trust, Burgh, Caledonian Railway, Cheshire, Clydesdale (Scottish Parliament constituency), Collegiate church, David I of Scotland, Diana Napier, Dorothy Dunnett, Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (UK Parliament constituency), Erich Schaedler, Hogmanay, Hugh MacDiarmid, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Iron Age, John Brown (physician), John Pairman, Kirk, Lanark, Lanarkshire, List of places in South Lanarkshire, Little Sparta, Lord Elphinstone, Lymond Chronicles, Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming, Mary, Queen of Scots, Motte-and-bailey castle, Musselburgh, Natural gas, Peebles, Pentland Hills, Puppet, Richard Tauber, River Clyde, River Tweed, Robert the Bruce, Roman roads in Britannia, Scotland, Scottish Reformation, South Lanarkshire, Southern Uplands, Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway, The Land of Smiles, Thomas Gladstones, West Coast Main Line, William Ewart Gladstone, ..., 1st Armoured Division (Poland). Expand index (1 more) »

A702 road

The A702 is a major road in Scotland, that runs from Edinburgh to St. John's Town of Dalry in Dumfries and Galloway.

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Albion Motors

Albion Automotive of Scotstoun, Glasgow is a former Scottish automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturer.

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Ashton Hayes

Ashton Hayes is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ashton Hayes and Horton-cum-Peel, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Biggar High School

Biggar High School (Local education authority: South Lanarkshire) is a secondary school located in the town of Biggar, South Lanarkshire.

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Biggar Museum Trust

Biggar Museum Trust (BMT) is an independent charity based in and around the town of Biggar in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Burgh

A burgh was an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland and Northern England, usually a town, or toun in Scots.

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Caledonian Railway

The Caledonian Railway (CR) was a major Scottish railway company.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Clydesdale (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Clydesdale is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood).

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Collegiate church

In Christianity, a collegiate church is a church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons; a non-monastic or "secular" community of clergy, organised as a self-governing corporate body, which may be presided over by a dean or provost.

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David I of Scotland

David I or Dauíd mac Maíl Choluim (Modern: Daibhidh I mac Chaluim; – 24 May 1153) was a 12th-century ruler who was Prince of the Cumbrians from 1113 to 1124 and later King of the Scots from 1124 to 1153.

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Diana Napier

Diana Napier (31 January 1905 – 12 March 1982) was an English film actress.

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Dorothy Dunnett

Dorothy Dunnett (née Halliday, 25 August 1923 – 9 November 2001) was a Scottish historical novelist.

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Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (UK Parliament constituency)

Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale is a constituency of the House of Commons, located in the south of Scotland, within the Dumfries and Galloway, South Lanarkshire and Scottish Borders council areas.

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Erich Schaedler

Erich Peter Schaedler (6 August 1949 – 24 December 1985) was a Scottish professional footballer of German extraction, who played as a left back.

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Hogmanay

Hogmanay is the Scots word for the last day of the year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year (Gregorian calendar) in the Scottish manner.

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Hugh MacDiarmid

Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 – 9 September 1978), known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure.

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Ian Hamilton Finlay

Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE (28 October 1925 – 27 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.

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John Brown (physician)

John Brown (22 September 1810 – 11 May 1882) was a Scottish physician and essayist best known for his three-volume collection Horae Subsecivae (Leisure Hours, 1858), which included essays and papers on art, medical history and biography.

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John Pairman

John Pairman (1788–1843) was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter operational in the 19th century.

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Kirk

Kirk is a Scottish and Northern English word meaning "church", or more specifically, the Church of Scotland.

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Lanark

Lanark (Lannraig, Lanrik) is a small town in the central belt of Scotland.

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Lanarkshire

Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark (Siorrachd Lannraig, Lanrikshire) is a historic county in the central Lowlands of Scotland.

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List of places in South Lanarkshire

The List of places in South Lanarkshire is a list of links for any town, village, hamlet, castle, golf course, historic house, hillfort, lighthouse, nature reserve, river, and other place of interest in the South Lanarkshire council area of Scotland.

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Little Sparta

Little Sparta is a garden at Dunsyre in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Scotland, created by artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay and his wife Sue Finlay.

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Lord Elphinstone

Lord Elphinstone is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created by King James IV in 1510.

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Lymond Chronicles

The Lymond Chronicles is a series of six novels written by Dorothy Dunnett and first published between 1961 and 1975.

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Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming

Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming (c. 1494 – 10 September 1547), was Lord Chamberlain of Scotland to King James V, from 1524.

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Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I, reigned over Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567.

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Motte-and-bailey castle

A motte-and-bailey castle is a fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork called a motte, accompanied by an enclosed courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.

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Musselburgh

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Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.

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Peebles

Peebles (Na Pùballan) is a royal burgh in Peeblesshire, of which it is the county town, within the Scottish Borders region.

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Pentland Hills

The Pentland Hills are a range of hills to the south-west of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Puppet

A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, animal or mythical figure, that is animated or manipulated by a person called a puppeteer.

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Richard Tauber

Richard Tauber (16 May 1891 – 8 January 1948) was an Austrian tenor.

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River Clyde

The River Clyde (Abhainn Chluaidh,, Watter o Clyde) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde in Scotland.

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River Tweed

The River Tweed, or Tweed Water (Abhainn Thuaidh, Watter o Tweid), is a river long that flows east across the Border region in Scotland and northern England.

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Robert the Bruce

Robert I (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329), popularly known as Robert the Bruce (Medieval Gaelic: Roibert a Briuis; modern Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Bruis; Norman French: Robert de Brus or Robert de Bruys; Early Scots: Robert Brus; Robertus Brussius), was King of Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329.

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Roman roads in Britannia

Roman roads in Britannia were initially designed for military use, created by the Roman Army during the nearly four centuries (43 – 410 AD) that Britannia was a province of the Roman Empire.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Scottish Reformation

The Scottish Reformation was the process by which Scotland broke with the Papacy and developed a predominantly Calvinist national Kirk (church), which was strongly Presbyterian in outlook.

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South Lanarkshire

South Lanarkshire (Sooth Lanrikshire, Siorrachd Lannraig a Deas) is one of 32 unitary authorities of Scotland.

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Southern Uplands

The Southern Uplands are the southernmost and least populous of mainland Scotland's three major geographic areas (the others being the Central Lowlands and the Highlands).

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Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway

The Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway was a railway company in southern Scotland.

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The Land of Smiles

The Land of Smiles (German) is a romantic operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár.

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Thomas Gladstones

Thomas Gladstones (3 June 1732 – 12 May 1809) was a Scottish merchant and philanthropist.

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West Coast Main Line

The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important railway corridors in the United Kingdom, connecting the major cities of London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow.

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William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone, (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman of the Liberal Party.

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1st Armoured Division (Poland)

The Polish 1st Armoured Division (Polish 1 Dywizja Pancerna) was an armoured division of the Polish Armed Forces in the West during World War II.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggar,_South_Lanarkshire

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