Callander
Callander is a town in the council location of Stirling, Scotland, situated on the River Teith. The community is located in the historic region of Perthshire and also is a prominent traveler stop to as well as from the Highlands. The community functions as the eastern entrance to the Loch Lomond as well as the Trossachs National Park, the first 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 feet) at the cairn. Ben Ledi (879 metres, 2,884 ft) lies north-west of Callander. Popular neighborhood walks consist of Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags and also the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Means travels through Callander. The community sits on the Trossachs Predator Trail. The River Teith is created from the confluence of 2 smaller sized 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 preached in the area in the sixth-century. The church closed in 1985 as well as in between 1990 and 2006 the structure, after undergoing significant indoor changes, was home to a site visitor centre and also audio-visual destination telling the story of regional outlaw, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church structure was occupied by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland in between 2015 as well as 2018, but it now exists vacant. Established in 1892, McLaren High School informs students aged 11 to 18 from a broad catchment area extending as for Killin, Tyndrum as well as Inversnaid. Callander accomplished prominence throughout the 1960s as the fictional setup "Tannochbrae" in the BBC tv series Dr. Finlay's Casebook. In 2018 Callander was named Scotland's First Social Enterprise Place, [9] due to the quantity of social venture activity within the community. This consists of Callander Community Hydro Ltd., a community had renewable energy job which distributes funds to a selection of regional jobs.