Callander is a town in the council location of Stirling, Scotland, situated on the River Teith. The town is located in the historical county of Perthshire as well as is a prominent vacationer quit to and also from the Highlands. The community functions as the eastern gateway to the Loch Lomond and also the Trossachs National Park, the initial National Park in Scotland, and is often referred to as the "Entrance to the Highlands". Controling the community to the north are the Callander Crags, a noticeable part of the Highland Boundary Fault, rising to 343 metres (1,125 ft) at the . Ben Ledi (879 metres, 2,884 ft) lies north-west of Callander. Popular neighborhood walks include Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags and also the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Way passes through Callander. The community sits on the Trossachs Bird of Prey Trail. The River Teith is created from the assemblage of 2 smaller sized rivers, the Garbh Uisge (River Leny) and also Eas Gobhain regarding 1/3 mile (500 m) west of the bridge at Callander. A 19th century Gothic church stands in the town square, named after Saint Kessog, an Irish missionary that is claimed to have preached in the area in the sixth-century. The church closed in 1985 as well as between 1990 and 2006 the building, after undertaking significant indoor alterations, was residence to a visitor centre and audio-visual destination informing the tale of local hooligan, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church building was inhabited by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland between 2015 as well as 2018, however it currently exists empty. Founded in 1892, McLaren High School informs pupils aged 11 to 18 from a large catchment area prolonging regarding Killin, Tyndrum and also Inversnaid. Callander accomplished prominence during the 1960s as the fictional setup "Tannochbrae" in the BBC television series Dr. Finlay's Casebook. In 2018 Callander was named Scotland's First Social Enterprise Place, [9] as a result of the amount of social enterprise activity within the community. This consists of Callander Community Hydro Ltd., a community possessed renewable resource job which disperses funds to a range of regional jobs.