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BIGGAR , a police burgh of Lanarkshire
Scotland . Pop. (1901) 1366. It is situated about to m. S.E. of Carstairs Junction (Caledonian railway), where the lines from Edinburgh and Glasgow connect. Lying on Biggar Water and near the Clyde
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burgh of barony in 1451 and a police burgh in 1863. St Mary's church ,vas founded in 1545 by Lord Fleming, the head of the ruling family in the district
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Easter Gledstanes, the seat of the family from the 13th to the 17th century, and the estate of Arthurshiels, occupied by them for nearly a hundred years more, are situated about 31 M. to the north-west of the burgh. On the top of Quothquan Law (1097 ft.), about 3 M. west is a rock called Wallace's Chair, from the tradition that he held a council there prior to the battle of Biggar in 1297. Lamington, nearly 6 m. south
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Scotland , William Baillie, Lord Provand (d. 1593), the judge, and William Baillie (fl. 1648), the general whose strategy in opposition to the marquess of Mont-rose was so diligently stultified by the committee of estates. The ancient church of St Ninian's has a fine Norman doorway. Lamington Tower was reduced to its present fragmentary condition in the time of Edward I., when William Heselrig, the sheriff, laid siege to it. The defenders, Hugh de Bradfute and his son, were slain, and his daughter Marionthe betrothed, or, as some say, the wife of William Wallacewas conveyed to Lanark
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