Callander
Callander is a town in the council area of Stirling, Scotland, positioned on the River Teith. The town lies in the historical region of Perthshire and is a prominent vacationer quit to as well as from the Highlands. The town serves as the eastern portal to the Loch Lomond as well as the Trossachs National Park, the initial National Park in Scotland, as well as is typically referred to 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 ft) 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 also the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Means travels through Callander. The community rests on the Trossachs Bird of Prey Trail. The River Teith is developed from the confluence 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 community square, named after Saint Kessog, an Irish missionary who is stated to have actually preached in the area in the sixth-century. The church closed in 1985 and also in between 1990 and also 2006 the building, after undertaking considerable interior alterations, was home to a visitor centre and also audio-visual attraction telling the tale of regional outlaw, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church building was occupied by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland between 2015 as well as 2018, but it currently lies vacant. Founded in 1892, McLaren High School informs students aged 11 to 18 from a vast catchment area extending regarding Killin, Tyndrum as well as Inversnaid. Callander attained prominence during 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] due to the amount of social enterprise task within the town. This consists of Callander Neighborhood Hydro Ltd., an area owned renewable resource job which disperses funds to a selection of regional jobs.
