New signage to welcome visitors to Cupar

The three new ‘Arrival’ panels will be placed in the car parks at Fluthers, the railway Station and Bonnygate. These are designed to advise visitors how to find their way around the town.

There will also be three ‘Interpretive’ panels, placed at the Mercat Cross, the parish church, and Burnside. These are designed to explain – to residents and visitors alike – Cupar’s history and heritage around those parts of town.

There will also be a replacement panel at the entrance to the railway station car park, with a welcome to the Cupar Museum.

The project is a partnership involving Cupar Development Trust (CDT) Cupar Heritage and consultants CMC Associates, who prepared the town’s Interpretive Plan in 2017. Much of the information on the panels is the result of hard labour by the trustees and volunteers of Cupar Heritage, while the project has been driven forward by David Kirk, who continued to chair the Interpretive Plan Working Group after retiring from the Board of CDT last December.

Work on installing these signs is planned to start in October, and the work should be complete before Christmas.

A Zoom presentation was held on September 30, welcomed by CDT Chair, Bill Pagan. Dr Mike Spearman, of CMC Associates, then exhibited the signage and explained the background to the project. Among the guests was the Lord Lyon King of Arms, who has accepted CDT’s invitation to unveil the signage, along with other items being celebrated, in June 2021.

Any readers who would like to catch up with the signage project can view the Zoom event on Youtube at youtu.be/3Zca4nJRTFQ.

The Cupar signage project has been very timely. It progressed during lockdown, making Cupar ready to show off its retail and service town centre, as well as its history and heritage after Covid.

The new signage is digitally based, with QR Codes containing links to organisations and activities in the town.