Cupar
Cupar is a community, former royal burgh as well as parish in Fife, Scotland. It lies in between Dundee and also Glenrothes. According to a 2011 population price quote, Cupar had a population around 9,000, making it the nine largest settlement in Fife, as well as the civil parish a population of 11,183 (in 2011). It is the historic county town of Fife, although the council currently rests at Glenrothes. The community is believed to have expanded around the site of Cupar Castle, which was the seat of the constable and was had by the earls of Fife. The area came to be a centre for judiciary as the region of Fife and also as a market community catering for both cattle as well as sheep. Towards the latter phases of the 13th century, the burgh ended up being the website of a setting up of the three estates - clergy, the aristocracy and burgesses - organised by Alexander III in 1276 as a predecessor of the Parliament of Scotland. Although written information of a charter for the modern-day community was lost, evidence recommended that this existed as one of the many buildings had by the Earls of Fife by 1294. Throughout the middle of the 14th century, the burgh began to pay personalizeds on taxable incomes, which most likely meant that royal burgh status was provided sometime between 1294 and also 1328. The earliest record, referring to 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 identified by James II in 1428.
