Cupar
Cupar is a community, previous royal burgh as well as 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 nine 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 now sits at Glenrothes. The community is thought to have expanded around the site of Cupar Castle, which was the seat of the sheriff and also was had by the earls of Fife. The location ended up being a centre for judiciary as the county of Fife and as a market town providing for both cattle and lamb. Towards the last phases of the 13th century, the burgh came to be the website of a setting up of the three estates - clergy, nobility and also burgesses - arranged by Alexander III in 1276 as a precursor of the Parliament of Scotland. Although created info of a charter for the modern town was lost, proof suggested that this existed as one of the many homes had by the Earls of Fife by 1294. During the middle of the 14th century, the burgh started to pay customs on gross incomes, which possibly suggested that royal burgh status was given at some time in between 1294 and 1328. The oldest record, referring to the royal burgh, was a grant by Robert II in 1381 to offer a port at Guardbridge on the River Eden to assist boost trade with Flanders. This grant was formally recognised by James II in 1428.
