Callander is a village in the council area of Stirling, Scotland, located on the River Teith. The town is located in the historic county of Perthshire and also is a prominent vacationer quit to and from the Highlands. The community works as the eastern entrance to the Loch Lomond and also the Trossachs National Park, the very first National Park in Scotland, and also is typically 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 feet) at the . Ben Ledi (879 metres, 2,884 feet) lies north-west of Callander. Popular local walks consist of Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags as well as the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Means passes through Callander. The town sits on the Trossachs Predator Route. The River Teith is created from the convergence of 2 smaller sized rivers, the Garbh Uisge (River Leny) and also Eas Gobhain concerning 1/3 mile (500 m) west of the bridge at Callander. A 19th century Gothic church stands in the town square, called after Saint Kessog, an Irish missionary that is stated to have preached in the location in the sixth-century. The church enclosed 1985 as well as in between 1990 and 2006 the structure, after undertaking substantial interior alterations, was house to a visitor centre and audio-visual destination informing the tale of regional hooligan, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church structure was inhabited by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland between 2015 as well as 2018, yet it now exists vacant. Founded in 1892, McLaren High School informs pupils aged 11 to 18 from a wide catchment area extending as for Killin, Tyndrum and Inversnaid. Callander achieved importance during the 1960s as the fictional setup "Tannochbrae" in the BBC television series Dr. Finlay's Casebook. In 2018 Callander was called Scotland's First Social Enterprise Place, [9] due to the quantity of social business task within the town. This consists of Callander Neighborhood Hydro Ltd., a community possessed renewable energy job which disperses funds to a selection of neighborhood projects.
