26 Sep
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Cupar - KY14
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Cupar
Cupar is a town, previous royal burgh and also parish in Fife, Scotland. It lies between Dundee as well as Glenrothes. According to a 2011 population estimate, Cupar had a population around 9,000, making it the 9th largest negotiation in Fife, and the civil church a population of 11,183 (in 2011). It is the historic county town of Fife, although the council currently rests at Glenrothes. The town is thought to have actually grown around the site of Cupar Castle, which was the seat of the constable and also was had by the earls of Fife. The area came to be a centre for judiciary as the region of Fife and as a market town catering for both livestock and also sheep. Towards the latter phases of the 13th century, the burgh became the site of an assembly of the three estates - clergy, the aristocracy and also burgesses - organised by Alexander III in 1276 as a predecessor of the Parliament of Scotland. Although composed details of a charter for the modern town was shed, evidence suggested that this existed as one of the many residential or commercial properties possessed by the Earls of Fife by 1294. Throughout the center of the 14th century, the burgh started to pay personalizeds on gross incomes, which possibly indicated that royal burgh status was granted at some time between 1294 and 1328. The oldest document, describing the royal burgh, was a grant by Robert II in 1381 to give a port at Guardbridge on the River Eden to help increase trade with Flanders. This grant was officially acknowledged by James II in 1428.
