Springfield, a village on the south-western border of Cupar parish, Fife, near the left bank of the Eden, 3 miles SW of the town of Cupar. It has a station on the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee railway, a postoffice under Cupar, with money order and savings' bank departments, and a quoad sacra parochial church. Pop. of village (1861) 524, (1871) 608, (1881) 931; of q. s. parish (1871) 1098, (1881) 1480, of whom 100 were in Ceres, 64 in Cults, and 1316 in Cupar parish.Ord. Sur., sh. 40, 1867.
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