Callander
Callander is a town in the council location of Stirling, Scotland, situated on the River Teith. The community lies in the historic region of Perthshire as well as is a preferred visitor quit to as well as from the Highlands. The community functions as the eastern portal to the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, the first National Park in Scotland, as well as is frequently described as the "Portal to the Highlands". Dominating 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 . Ben Ledi (879 metres, 2,884 feet) exists north-west of Callander. Popular regional walks consist of Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags and the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Means passes through Callander. The town sits on the Trossachs Bird of Prey Route. The River Teith is created from the confluence of two smaller sized rivers, the Garbh Uisge (River Leny) as well as Eas Gobhain about 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 said to have preached in the location in the sixth-century. The church enclosed 1985 as well as between 1990 and also 2006 the building, after undertaking considerable interior alterations, was house to a visitor centre and also audio-visual destination telling the tale of regional criminal, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church building was inhabited by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland in between 2015 and 2018, but it currently lies empty. Established in 1892, McLaren High School educates pupils aged 11 to 18 from a large catchment area extending regarding Killin, Tyndrum as well as Inversnaid. Callander accomplished prominence throughout 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] because of the amount of social business task within the community. This consists of Callander Area Hydro Ltd., an area possessed renewable resource job which distributes funds to a variety of local tasks.
