Callander
Callander is a small town in the council area of Stirling, Scotland, situated on the River Teith. The town lies in the historic region of Perthshire and is a popular tourist stop to and also from the Highlands. The community acts as the eastern gateway to the Loch Lomond and also the Trossachs National Park, the very first National Park in Scotland, and also is commonly described as the "Entrance to the Highlands". Dominating the community 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 neighborhood strolls include Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags and the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Way travels through Callander. The community sits on the Trossachs Bird of Prey Trail. The River Teith is formed from the convergence of two smaller rivers, the Garbh Uisge (River Leny) as well as Eas Gobhain concerning 1/3 mile (500 m) west of the bridge at Callander. A 19th century Gothic church stands in the community square, named after Saint Kessog, an Irish missionary who is said to have preached in the area in the sixth-century. The church enclosed 1985 and also between 1990 and 2006 the structure, after undergoing considerable indoor alterations, was home to a site visitor centre and also audio-visual destination informing the tale of local outlaw, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church structure was occupied by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland in between 2015 and 2018, but it now exists vacant. Founded in 1892, McLaren High School informs students aged 11 to 18 from a broad catchment area prolonging regarding Killin, Tyndrum and also Inversnaid. Callander attained importance throughout the 1960s as the imaginary setup "Tannochbrae" in the BBC tv series Dr. Finlay's Casebook. In 2018 Callander was called Scotland's First Social Enterprise Place, [9] as a result of the amount of social venture activity within the community. This includes Callander Community Hydro Ltd., a neighborhood owned renewable energy project which distributes funds to a range of regional projects.