Cupar Muir is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.3089°, -3.0344°.

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Cupar Muir

Cupar Muir in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Cupar Muir is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Cupar Muir or Cuparmuir is a hamlet or small village situated just outside the town of Cupar, Fife. Lying around 25.5 miles (41 km) north of Edinburgh, it had a population of around 229 in 2011. The settlement was primarily developed around quarrying of stone, but is better known for a 1559 confrontation between the French troops of Mary of Guise and the Protestant forces of the Lords of the Congregation.

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History

On some early maps, Cupar Muir can be found labelled as Brighton after the Brighton Brick and Tile works which were once a prominent feature found to the south of the hamlet. These were opened in 1837 by Archibald Mitchell, so named after John Bright with whom Mitchell shared his politics, and he was joined soon after by his business partner Henry Duncan. The works were at one point considered extensive, and employed around 30 people in the mid-1850s. By 1909, the works had been closed for "some time," and in 1936 the associated Fife Brick and Tile Company was dissolved. On the site of the Brighton Brick and Tile works, occasionally referred to as the Trafford Bank Brickworks, now stands a…

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