The New Year's Eve festival held in Biggar, Scotland, and traditionally centered on a huge bonfire is the Biggar Bonfire.
Biggar, a town in South Lanarkshire, lights a large communal bonfire on Hogmanay. Residents and visitors gather around the fire as part of a local celebration that marks the transition into the new year. The event is one of Scotland’s distinctive regional fire customs.
Bonfires have long appeared in winter and New Year traditions across Scotland and other parts of northern Europe. Fire can symbolize warmth, light, purification, and the closing of an old season. Local practices differ widely, so the Biggar ceremony should not be treated as a universal Scottish custom.
Biggar’s event is also separate from Edinburgh’s large commercial Hogmanay program and Stonehaven’s Fireballs procession. The location is important: the answer is the name of the celebration, while Biggar is the town where it takes place.