Callander
Callander is a small town in the council area of Stirling, Scotland, located on the River Teith. The town lies in the historic region of Perthshire as well as is a prominent traveler stop to and from the Highlands. The town serves as the eastern gateway to the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, the very first National Park in Scotland, and is commonly described as the "Entrance 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 ft) at the cairn. Ben Ledi (879 metres, 2,884 ft) lies north-west of Callander. Popular neighborhood strolls consist of Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags and the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Means passes through Callander. The community remains on the Trossachs Predator Path. The River Teith is formed from the assemblage of two smaller sized rivers, the Garbh Uisge (River Leny) and Eas Gobhain regarding 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 that is claimed to have taught in the area in the sixth-century. The church enclosed 1985 as well as in between 1990 and 2006 the structure, after going through considerable interior changes, was house to a visitor centre and also audio-visual tourist attraction telling the tale of regional hooligan, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church building was inhabited by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland between 2015 and 2018, however it currently lies empty. Established in 1892, McLaren High School informs pupils aged 11 to 18 from a large catchment area extending as far as Killin, Tyndrum and also Inversnaid. Callander attained importance during 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 quantity of social enterprise task within the community. This includes Callander Area Hydro Ltd., a community owned renewable energy project which distributes funds to a variety of regional projects.