25 Apr
Heating | Fireplaces
Cupar - KY15
Enquiry from: Phil G
Start Date: Immediate
to service and re instate flueless gas fire (stand alone cottage style)
Cupar
Cupar is a town, former royal burgh as well as parish in Fife, Scotland. It exists in between Dundee and Glenrothes. According to a 2011 population quote, Cupar had a population around 9,000, making it the nine biggest settlement in Fife, and the civil parish a population of 11,183 (in 2011). It is the historic county town of Fife, although the council now sits at Glenrothes. The town is believed to have grown around the site of Cupar Castle, which was the seat of the constable and also was owned by the earls of Fife. The area ended up being a centre for judiciary as the area of Fife and as a market community catering for both livestock as well as sheep. Towards the latter phases of the 13th century, the burgh came to be the website of an assembly of the three estates - clergy, nobility and also burgesses - arranged by Alexander III in 1276 as a predecessor of the Parliament of Scotland. Although written info of a charter for the modern-day town was lost, evidence recommended 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 started to pay custom-mades on taxable incomes, which most likely meant that royal burgh condition was given at some time in between 1294 and also 1328. The oldest file, referring to the royal burgh, was a give by Robert II in 1381 to offer a port at Guardbridge on the River Eden to help increase trade with Flanders. This grant was officially identified by James II in 1428.
