Callander
Callander is a village in the council location of Stirling, Scotland, positioned on the River Teith. The community is located in the historic county of Perthshire and also is a prominent vacationer quit to and also from the Highlands. The town acts as the eastern gateway to the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, the very first National Park in Scotland, as well as is usually referred to as the "Entrance 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 feet) at the cairn. Ben Ledi (879 metres, 2,884 ft) lies north-west of Callander. Popular regional walks include Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags and the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Means goes through Callander. The community sits on the Trossachs Predator Trail. The River Teith is formed from the convergence of 2 smaller rivers, the Garbh Uisge (River Leny) and also Eas Gobhain about 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 who is said to have actually taught in the location in the sixth-century. The church closed in 1985 and in between 1990 as well as 2006 the structure, after undertaking substantial interior changes, was residence to a visitor centre and audio-visual tourist attraction informing the tale of regional hooligan, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church building was inhabited by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland in between 2015 as well as 2018, however it currently exists empty. Established in 1892, McLaren High School educates students aged 11 to 18 from a large catchment area extending as far as Killin, Tyndrum and also Inversnaid. Callander achieved prestige throughout the 1960s as the fictional setting "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 venture activity within the community. This consists of Callander Area Hydro Ltd., a neighborhood possessed renewable energy project which disperses funds to a selection of local jobs.