Callander is a small town in the council location of Stirling, Scotland, located on the River Teith. The community is located in the historical county of Perthshire and is a prominent tourist quit to and from the Highlands. The community functions as the eastern gateway to the Loch Lomond and also the Trossachs National Park, the initial National Park in Scotland, as well as is typically described as the "Gateway to the Highlands". Controling 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 feet) exists north-west of Callander. Popular neighborhood walks consist of Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags and the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Way goes through Callander. The community remains on the Trossachs Bird of Prey Route. The River Teith is formed from the assemblage of two smaller sized rivers, the Garbh Uisge (River Leny) as well as Eas Gobhain regarding 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 stated to have taught in the location in the sixth-century. The church closed in 1985 and between 1990 as well as 2006 the structure, after going through substantial indoor alterations, was residence to a site visitor centre and audio-visual destination informing the story of neighborhood criminal, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church building was occupied by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland in between 2015 and 2018, yet it now exists empty. Founded in 1892, McLaren High School informs students aged 11 to 18 from a large catchment area expanding as for Killin, Tyndrum as well as Inversnaid. Callander accomplished prestige during the 1960s as the fictional setting "Tannochbrae" in the BBC tv 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 enterprise activity within the community. This consists of Callander Area Hydro Ltd., a neighborhood possessed renewable resource task which disperses funds to a range of local tasks.