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Coupar Angus (/ˈkʊpər/ ; Gaelic: Cupar Aonghais)[2] is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It lies on the River Isla in the broad and fertile Valley of Strathmore, 4 miles (6 kilometres) south of Blairgowrie. The A94 road from Perth to Forfar runs through the town, and it had a station on the Midland Junction line until 1967.
Coupar Angus
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Coupar Angus's clock tower | |
Location within Perth and Kinross | |
Population | 2,220 (2022)[1] |
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 | |
Scottish Parliament | |
The town formerly straddled the border between Angus and Perthshire, but it has lain wholly within Perthshire since 1891.[3] It retains the name "Coupar Angus", however, which serves to distinguish it from Cupar in Fife.[4]
The six-storey Tolbooth was built in 1762, funded by public subscription.[5]
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.[6]
Coupar Angus Town Hall was commissioned to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria and completed in 1887.[7]
Several Polish units were stationed in and around Coupar Angus during the Second World War.[8]
The Scottish Fold breed of cat originated in or near Coupar Angus.[9]
Coupar Angus is home to the junior football club Coupar Angus F.C. and also Coupar Angus Amateur Football Club.
Stagecoach East Scotland operate services 57/57A and 59 via Coupar Angus which go to Dundee, Blairgowrie and Perth. The services each run hourly. [10]
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