Cupar
Cupar is a town, previous royal burgh and church in Fife, Scotland. It lies 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 rests at Glenrothes. The community is thought to have expanded around the site of Cupar Castle, which was the seat of the constable and also was had by the earls of Fife. The area became a centre for judiciary as the region of Fife and as a market town catering for both cattle and also sheep. In the direction of the last phases of the 13th century, the burgh came to be the site of a setting up of the 3 estates - clergy, the aristocracy as well as citizens - organised by Alexander III in 1276 as a predecessor of the Parliament of Scotland. Although written details of a charter for the modern town was shed, evidence recommended that this existed as one of the many properties owned by the Earls of Fife by 1294. Throughout the center of the 14th century, the burgh began to pay customs on taxable incomes, which possibly implied that royal burgh status was provided sometime between 1294 as well as 1328. The earliest file, describing the royal burgh, was a grant by Robert II in 1381 to offer a port at Guardbridge on the River Eden to help boost trade with Flanders. This grant was officially acknowledged by James II in 1428.
