Editing Coupar Angus

{{Short description|Town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country                          = Scotland
| official_name                    = Coupar Angus
| gaelic_name                      = Cupar Aonghais
| scots_name                       =
| static_image_name                = Image:Clock Tower in Coupar Angus.jpg
| static_image_caption             = Coupar Angus's clock tower
| os_grid_reference                = NO222401
| edinburgh_distance_mi            = 41
| coordinates                      = {{coord|56.547|-3.267|display=inline,title}}
| population                       = {{Scottish locality population|name|POP=Coupar Angus}}
| population_ref                   = ({{Scottish settlement population citation|year}})<ref>{{Scottish settlement population citation}}</ref>
| unitary_scotland                 = [[Perth and Kinross]]
| lieutenancy_scotland             = [[Perth and Kinross]]
| post_town                        = BLAIRGOWRIE
| postcode_district                = PH13
| postcode_area                    = PH
| dial_code                        = 01828
| constituency_westminster         = [[Perth and North Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Perth and North Perthshire]]
| constituency_scottish_parliament = [[Perthshire North (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Perthshire North]] 
}}
'''Coupar Angus''' ({{IPAc-en|'|k|ʊ|p|ər|audio=Coupar Angus.ogg}}; [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]]: ''Cupar Aonghais'')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ainmean-aite.scot/?id=38564|title=Coupar Angus|publisher=Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba|access-date=2024-01-31}}</ref> is a town in [[Perth and Kinross]], [[Scotland]]. It lies on the [[River Isla, Perthshire|River Isla]] in the broad and fertile [[Valley of Strathmore]], {{convert|4|mi|km|0|abbr=off}} south of [[Blairgowrie and Rattray|Blairgowrie]]. The [[A94 road]] from [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]] to [[Forfar]] runs through the town, and it had a [[Coupar Angus railway station|station]] on the [[Scottish Midland Junction Railway|Midland Junction]] line until 1967.

The town formerly straddled the border between [[Angus, Scotland|Angus]] and [[Perthshire]], but it has lain wholly within Perthshire since 1891.<ref>{{cite book|title=Boundaries of Counties and Parishes in Scotland|last=Shennan|first=Hay|date=1892|location=Edinburgh|publisher=William Green & Sons|page=202|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_meygAAAAMAAJ/page/n239}}</ref> It retains the name "Coupar Angus", however, which serves to distinguish it from [[Cupar]] in [[Fife]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Mills|first=A. D.|title=A Dictionary of British Place Names|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2011|isbn=9780191739446|entry=Coupar Angus|entry-url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199609086.001.0001/acref-9780199609086-e-3800|entry-url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Town Hall, Coupar Angus - geograph.org.uk - 411905.jpg|thumb|left|[[Coupar Angus Town Hall]]]]
The six-storey [[Tolbooth]] was built in 1762, funded by public subscription.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/30603/coupar-angus-queen-street-the-steeple|title=Coupar Angus, Queen Street, The Steeple|work=Canmore|access-date=24 July 2018}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst146.html|title=Coupar Angus|work=Gazetteer for Scotland|access-date=24 July 2018}}</ref>

[[Coupar Angus Town Hall]] was commissioned to celebrate the [[Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria]] and completed in 1887.<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num= LB51347|desc= Town Hall Including Boundary Walls, Union Street|access-date=6 July 2022}}</ref>

Several Polish units were stationed in and around Coupar Angus during the [[World War II|Second World War]].<ref>[http://www.polishforcesinbritain.info/PolonicaCouparAngus.htm POLONICA IN SCOTLAND: Coupar Angus]</ref>

The [[Scottish Fold]] breed of [[cat]] originated in or near Coupar Angus.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cat-world.com.au/scottish-fold-breed-profile.html|title=Scottish Fold Profile - History, Appearance & Temperament - Cat World|website=www.cat-world.com.au|date=26 February 2017|language=en-US|access-date=2018-07-07}}</ref>

==Sport==
Coupar Angus is home to the [[Scottish Junior Football Association|junior]] [[football (soccer)|football]] club [[Coupar Angus F.C.]] and also Coupar Angus Amateur Football Club.

== Buses ==
[[Stagecoach East Scotland]] operate services 57/57A and 59 via Coupar Angus which go to [[Dundee]], [[Blairgowrie and Rattray|Blairgowrie]] and [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]]. The services each run hourly. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Blairgowrie Guide 2024 |url=https://tiscon-maps-stagecoachbus.s3.amazonaws.com/Timetables/East%20Scotland/EScotTemp/Perth%20and%20Kinross%20May%2024/Blairgowrie%20Guide%202024.pdf |website=stagecoachbus.com}}</ref>

==Notable people==
*[[William Nairne Clark]] (1804–1854), born locally and one of the two protagonists that fought the first recorded duel in Western Australia.<ref name="Bolton1966">{{cite AuDB |first=G.C. |last=Bolton |author-link=G. C. Bolton |title=Clark, William Nairne (1804–1854) |volume= |edition= |year=1966 |id2=clark-william-nairne-1900 |access-date=2 November 2018 }}</ref>
*[[Alan Gilzean]] (1938-2018), locally-born former [[footballer|professional footballer]] from the 1960s and 1970s.
*[[Robert Gillespie Reid|Sir Robert Gillespie Reid]] (1842–1908), [[Rail transport|railway]] [[general contractor|contractor]].
*[[James Stirton]] (1833-1917), locally-born physician and leading expert on [[mosses]] and [[lichen]].
*[[Jock Sutherland]] (1889-1948), locally-born coach for the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] 1946–1947.
*[[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major-General]] [[Douglas Wimberley]] (1896-1983), commander of the [[51st (Highland) Division]] in the [[World War II|Second World War]].

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