Coupar Angus
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) Coupar Angus's clock tower | |
)  Coupar Angus Location within Perth and Kinross | |
| Population | 2,262 [1] (2011 census) |
| OS grid reference | NO222401 |
| • Edinburgh | 41 mi (66 km) |
| Council area | |
| Lieutenancy area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BLAIRGOWRIE |
| Postcode district | PH13 |
| Dialling code | 01828 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
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Coupar Angus (/ˈkʊpər/ ; Gaelic: Cùbar Aonghais) is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, 4 miles (6 kilometres) south of Blairgowrie.
The name Coupar Angus serves to differentiate the town from Cupar, Fife. The town was traditionally on the border between Angus and Perthshire, the town centre being in Perthshire. The Angus part was transferred to Perthshire in 1891, but the town retained its name.
It is located on the A94 Perth-Forfar road, although the town centre itself is now bypassed.
History
Sites
Clock Tower - The Steeple
The six-storey Tolbooth was built in 1762, funded by public subscription.[2]
Coupar Angus Abbey
In the Middle Ages the Cistercian Coupar Angus Abbey was one of Scotland's most important monasteries, founded by Malcolm IV (1153–65) in the 1160s. Of the abbey, only architectural fragments, preserved in the 19th-century parish church (which is probably on the site of the monastic church), or built into houses and walls throughout the town, survive, along with part of one of its gatehouses.[3]
World War II
Polish Forces
Several Polish units were stationed in and around Coupar Angus from 1939 to 1945.[4]
Animals
Scottish Fold
- The Scottish Fold breed of cat originated in Coupar Angus.
Sport
- Coupar Angus is home to the junior football club Coupar Angus F.C. and also Coupar Angus Amateur Football Club.
Notable people
Sport
- Coupar Angus is the birthplace of Jock Sutherland, coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers 1946–1947.
- Coupar Angus is the birthplace of Alan Gilzean, who is a former professional footballer from the 1960s and 1970s and played for Scottish club Dundee, national side Scotland and English club Tottenham Hotspur.
Science
- James Stirton, physician and leading expert on mosses and lichen was born in 1833 in Coupar Angus.
Emigrants
- William Nairne Clark, one of the two protagonists that fought the first recorded duel in Western Australia, was born in Coupar Angus in 1804. Clark and his opponent, George French Johnson, faced each other in Fremantle, Western Australia, on the morning of Friday 6 June 1832. Johnson was fatally wounded in the hip in the encounter. Clark was subsequently charged with, and acquitted of, Johnson's manslaughter. Clark, who had trained as a lawyer, emigrated to Western Australia on the convict ship 'Eliza' in 1830. He initially practised as a lawyer before founding the Swan River Guardian newspaper in 1836.[5]
References
- ^ "Comparative Population Profile: Coupar Angus Locality". Scotland's Census Results Online. 29 April 2001. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
- ^ "Coupar Angus, Queen Street, The Steeple". Canmore. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ^ "Coupar Angus". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ^ POLONICA IN SCOTLAND: Coupar Angus
- ^ Bolton, G.C. (1966). "Clark, William Nairne (1804–1854)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 2 November 2018 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.