Coupar Angus
| Coupar Angus | |
| Scottish Gaelic: Cùbar Aonghais | |
| 240px Coupar Angus's clock tower |
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| Population | Expression error: "Script error: No such module "Tabular data"." must be numeric (mid-2014 est.)[1] |
|---|---|
| OS grid reference | NO222401 |
| – Edinburgh | 41 mi (66 km) |
| Council area | Perth and Kinross |
| Lieutenancy area | Perth and Kinross |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BLAIRGOWRIE |
| Postcode district | PH13 |
| Dialling code | 01828 |
| Police | Scottish |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| EU Parliament | Scotland |
| UK Parliament | Perth and North Perthshire |
| Scottish Parliament | Perthshire North |
Coupar Angus (
i/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. Coupar Angus railway station previously served the town.
Contents
History
Sites
Clock Tower - The Steeple
The six-storey Tolbooth was built in 1762, funded by public subscription.[2]
Coupar Angus Abbey
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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.[5]
Sport
- Coupar Angus is home to the junior football club Coupar Angus F.C. and also Coupar Angus Amateur Football Club.
Notable people
Military
- Major-General Douglas Wimberley, commander of the 51st (Highland) Division from 1941 to 1943, including at the Second Battle of El Alamein, lived in Coupar Angus from his retirement as President of University College, Dundee in 1954 until his death in 1983.
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.[6]
References
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