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Cupar
Cupar is a community, former royal burgh and also church in Fife, Scotland. It exists in between Dundee and also Glenrothes. According to a 2011 population quote, Cupar had a population around 9,000, making it the ninth biggest settlement in Fife, as well as the civil church a population of 11,183 (in 2011). It is the historical county town of Fife, although the council currently sits at Glenrothes. The community is thought to have actually grown around the site of Cupar Castle, which was the seat of the constable as well as was owned by the earls of Fife. The area ended up being a centre for judiciary as the county of Fife and also as a market town catering for both livestock and also sheep. Towards the last stages of the 13th century, the burgh came to be the website of a setting up of the 3 estates - clergy, nobility and citizens - organised by Alexander III in 1276 as a precursor of the Parliament of Scotland. Although composed details of a charter for the modern town was lost, proof suggested that this existed as one of the many buildings possessed by the Earls of Fife by 1294. Throughout the middle of the 14th century, the burgh began to pay custom-mades on gross incomes, which possibly implied that royal burgh status was approved sometime in between 1294 and also 1328. The earliest document, describing the royal burgh, was a give by Robert II in 1381 to give a port at Guardbridge on the River Eden to help improve trade with Flanders. This grant was formally acknowledged by James II in 1428.