Callander
Callander is a village in the council area of Stirling, Scotland, situated on the River Teith. The town lies in the historical area of Perthshire and is a popular visitor quit to as well as from the Highlands. The town works as the eastern entrance to the Loch Lomond as well as the Trossachs National Park, the initial National Park in Scotland, and is usually referred to as the "Portal to the Highlands". Dominating the community to the north are the Callander Crags, a visible part of the Highland Boundary Fault, rising to 343 metres (1,125 ft) at the cairn. Ben Ledi (879 metres, 2,884 feet) lies north-west of Callander. Popular neighborhood walks include Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags and also the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Means travels through Callander. The community remains on the Trossachs Bird of Prey Trail. The River Teith is created from the confluence of two smaller 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 who is claimed to have actually preached in the area in the sixth-century. The church closed in 1985 and between 1990 and 2006 the structure, after going through significant interior changes, was home to a site visitor centre as well as audio-visual attraction informing the story of neighborhood criminal, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church structure was inhabited by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland in between 2015 and 2018, but it currently lies vacant. Founded in 1892, McLaren High School enlightens students aged 11 to 18 from a wide catchment area expanding regarding Killin, Tyndrum and also Inversnaid. Callander attained prestige 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 quantity of social business task within the community. This consists of Callander Area Hydro Ltd., a community possessed renewable energy task which distributes funds to a selection of neighborhood jobs.