Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Cupar. You may be able to find further references to Cupar in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cupar	the north-western of the four divisions of Fife	Groome
Cupar or Cupar-Fife	a town and a parish of central Fife. A royal and parliamentary burgh	Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Cupar.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bellfield	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Bellfield	seat	Bartholomew
Brighton	village	Bartholomew
Brighton	a village, with a public school	Groome
Cairnie	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Carslogie	estate with mansion	Bartholomew
Carslogie	an estate, with an ancient mansion	Groome
Cuparmuir	a village	Groome
Ferrybank	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Foxton	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Gladney or Glaidney	a village	Groome
Kilmaron	Castle	Groome
Kilmaron Castle	seat	Bartholomew
Pitbladdo	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Pitbladdo	seat	Bartholomew
Prestonhall	seat	Bartholomew
Prestonhall	a mansion	Groome
Springfield	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Tarvit House	seat	Bartholomew
Wemyss Hall	a mansion	Groome
Wemyss Hall	seat	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Cupar within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	3
James Boswell	August 18th to 20th, 1773: From Edinburgh to Montrose	1
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	1
Robert Gammage	Touring central Scotland	1
Samuel Johnson	Inch Keith and St. Andrews	1
Samuel Johnson	Arbroath and Montrose	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Balgarvie	0	2
Scotstarvit	0	2
Springfield	0	2
Ceres	0	2
Kemback	0	2
Moonzie	0	2
Pitscottie	0	2
Blebo	0	2
Dairsie	0	2
Cults	0	2
Pitlessie	0	1
Logie	0	3
Monimail	0	2
Kilmany	0	2
Creich	0	2
Ladybank	0	2
Guard Bridge	0	2
Collessie	0	2
Kettle	0	2
Dunbog	0	2