Callander
Callander is a town in the council area of Stirling, Scotland, located on the River Teith. The community lies in the historical area of Perthshire and is a prominent traveler stop to and from the Highlands. The town works as the eastern entrance to the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, the initial National Park in Scotland, as well as is typically referred to as the "Portal to the Highlands". Controling the town to the north are the Callander Crags, a noticeable part of the Highland Boundary Fault, rising to 343 metres (1,125 ft) at the cairn. Ben Ledi (879 metres, 2,884 feet) exists north-west of Callander. Popular regional strolls consist of Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags and also the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Method goes through Callander. The community rests on the Trossachs Predator Path. The River Teith is created from the assemblage of two smaller rivers, the Garbh Uisge (River Leny) as well as Eas Gobhain about 1/3 mile (500 m) west of the bridge at Callander. A 19th century Gothic church stands in the community square, named after Saint Kessog, an Irish missionary that is said to have taught in the location in the sixth-century. The church enclosed 1985 and also between 1990 and 2006 the structure, after undergoing significant interior changes, was home to a site visitor centre as well as audio-visual tourist attraction telling the story of neighborhood criminal, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church structure was inhabited by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland between 2015 and also 2018, but it currently lies empty. Founded in 1892, McLaren High School educates students aged 11 to 18 from a large catchment area prolonging regarding Killin, Tyndrum and also Inversnaid. Callander accomplished prominence throughout the 1960s as the imaginary setup "Tannochbrae" in the BBC tv series Dr. Finlay's Casebook. In 2018 Callander was named Scotland's First Social Enterprise Place, [9] because of the amount of social enterprise activity within the town. This consists of Callander Area Hydro Ltd., a community owned renewable resource task which distributes funds to a variety of regional jobs.