Cupar
Cupar is a town, previous royal burgh as well as church in Fife, Scotland. It lies in between Dundee and Glenrothes. According to a 2011 population price quote, Cupar had a population around 9,000, making it the 9th largest settlement in Fife, and the civil church a population of 11,183 (in 2011). It is the historic county town of Fife, although the council now sits at Glenrothes. The community is believed to have grown 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 town catering for both cattle as well as sheep. Towards the last stages of the 13th century, the burgh became the site of an assembly of the three estates - clergy, the aristocracy and citizens - 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 lost, proof suggested that this existed as one of the many residential or commercial properties owned by the Earls of Fife by 1294. During the center of the 14th century, the burgh started to pay customizeds on taxable incomes, which probably indicated that royal burgh status was approved at some time between 1294 and also 1328. The earliest file, referring to the royal burgh, was a grant by Robert II in 1381 to give a port at Guardbridge on the River Eden to assist enhance trade with Flanders. This grant was officially acknowledged by James II in 1428.
