 The diarist John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington often refers to the town and its "Sun Inn".Biggleswade is mentioned on the TV Series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" during a Piranha Brothers Sketch.In the Doonesbury comic strip, the character Zonker Harris buys a British peerage which grants him the title "His Lordship the Viscount St. Austell-in-the-Moor Biggleswade-Brixham".