Callander
Callander is a small town in the council location of Stirling, Scotland, situated on the River Teith. The community lies in the historical area of Perthshire and also is a popular traveler quit to as well as from the Highlands. The community serves as the eastern portal to the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, the first National Park in Scotland, and also is typically referred to as the "Gateway 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 ft) exists north-west of Callander. Popular regional walks include Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags and the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Way travels through Callander. The town sits on the Trossachs Predator Route. The River Teith is developed from the convergence of two smaller 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 said to have preached in the location in the sixth-century. The church closed in 1985 as well as between 1990 and 2006 the structure, after going through significant indoor changes, was home to a site visitor centre and also audio-visual attraction informing the tale of neighborhood hooligan, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church building was inhabited by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland in between 2015 as well as 2018, however it currently lies vacant. Founded in 1892, McLaren High School enlightens students aged 11 to 18 from a wide catchment area expanding as for Killin, Tyndrum and Inversnaid. Callander attained importance during the 1960s as the imaginary setup "Tannochbrae" in the BBC tv series Dr. Finlay's Casebook. In 2018 Callander was named Scotland's First Social Enterprise Place, [9] because of the amount of social venture activity within the community. This includes Callander Area Hydro Ltd., an area owned renewable energy project which disperses funds to a variety of neighborhood tasks.
