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Scottish Borders Lanarkshire

Moat Park Heritage Centre, Biggar

Description: One of a series of museums and places of interest within the town of Biggar. Meet an Iron Age family or a Roman soldier. See the 'Menzies Moffat' tapestry. Ownership: Biggar...
Type: Museums

The Albion Museum and Archive, Biggar

Description: One of a series of museums and places of interest within the town of Biggar. The Albion building houses vehicles and archives of Albion Motors, a commercial vehicle manufacturing firm st...
Type: Museums

Biggar Gasworks Museum

Description: Find out how gas was made from coal in the only preserved gasworks in Scotland. Built in 1839, Biggar Gas Works remains just as it was when it closed in 1973 following the arrival of Nor...
Type: Museums

Brownsbank Cottage, by Biggar

Description: This cottage, the but and ben where Scotlands's international poet, Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Grieve) lived with his wife Valda from 1951 until their deaths in 1978 and 1989, has been ...
Type: Museums

Gladstone Court, Biggar

Description: One of a series of museums and places of interest within the town of Biggar. A museum of Victorian social history. Walk along the street as it was, visit the shops or sit in the schoolr...
Type: Museums

Greenhill Covenanters' House, Biggar

Description: One of a series of museums and places of interest within the town of Biggar. Biggar Museum Trust rescued this 17th century farmhouse from its original site some 13 kilometres away. They...
Type: Museums

New Lanark World Heritage Village

Description: Newly opened, this is New Lanark World Heritage Site, with its range of buildings from the 1820's, now acting as the best in living industrial archaeology. See Robert Owen, the indus...
Type: Visitor-Attractions

Scottish Borders Lanarkshire