Oblique aerial view of Cupar
SC 377436
Description Oblique aerial view of Cupar
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 377436
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 21935
Scope and Content Aerial view from south of Cupar, Fife Cupar began as a settlement around a castle of the Earls of Fife. The castle was demolished by King David II to stop the English from occupying it, but the town, a royal burgh since 1328 and seat of the sheriff of Fife, survived. Crossgate runs roughly north to meet the early 19th-century St Catherine Street (centre, right). To build this street, the developer used his position as provost to have the burgh tolbooth demolished 'under cloud of night', probably illegally. 18th and 19th-century redevelopment probably destroyed most of those of Cupar's earlier buildings that had survived the disastrous fires of 1616 and 1669. These included the houses of the local nobility who sold up to move to less urban locations. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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