Callander
Callander is a small town in the council area of Stirling, Scotland, positioned on the River Teith. The town is located in the historic area of Perthshire and is a popular tourist quit to and from the Highlands. The town functions as the eastern gateway to the Loch Lomond and also the Trossachs National Park, the first National Park in Scotland, as well as is commonly described as the "Gateway 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 regional strolls consist of Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags and the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Way passes through Callander. The town sits on the Trossachs Bird of Prey Path. The River Teith is formed from the convergence of two smaller rivers, the Garbh Uisge (River Leny) and also 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 stated to have actually taught in the location in the sixth-century. The church closed in 1985 and also between 1990 and 2006 the structure, after going through considerable interior alterations, was home to a visitor centre as well as audio-visual attraction informing the tale of neighborhood outlaw, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church building was occupied by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland between 2015 and also 2018, but it now lies empty. Established in 1892, McLaren High School enlightens pupils aged 11 to 18 from a broad catchment area extending regarding Killin, Tyndrum and Inversnaid. Callander attained prominence 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] due to the quantity of social venture task within the town. This includes Callander Community Hydro Ltd., a community possessed renewable resource task which disperses funds to a selection of neighborhood jobs.
