Callander

Callander is a small town in the Stirling Council Area in Scotland, on Teith. The city is located in the former County of Perthshire, and is a popular tourist destination in the Highlands.

Location

The city serves as the eastern access to the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, the first National Park in Scotland. According to its location Callander is often referred to as the gateway to the Highlands. In the former St. Kessogs Church now the tourist information center is housed.

Minted is the image of the city by the rock walls in the north, a visible part of the Highland Boundary Fault, which are 343 m high. Local footpaths lead through the Bracklinn Falls, the Meadows, Callander Crags and the Wood Walks. The city lies on the Trossachs Bird of Prey Trail.

History

Battle of Callander

1645, during the Montrose campaigns, a battle took place at Callander between the Campbells of Argyll and the Atholls. The Campbells attacked the McGregors and the McNab on account of their loyalty to Montrose. During the siege of Castle Ample news of 700 advancing men of Atholl reached under Inchbrakie the Campbells. These retreated to the south. But when the Campbells were crossing a ford near the village of Callander, it was requested and were forced to fight a battle. Inchbrakie left a part of his troops to attack, while another department secretly a ford upriver, near the bridge today, marched. The ford was crossed rapidly and the Campbells were now unexpectedly attacked from behind, scattered and fled. They had to leave their dead eighty men.

Since the nineteenth century

Callander was from July 1, 1858 terminus of a railway line from Dunblane. A second station was about 800 meters west opened on July 1, 1870 behind the Dreadnought Hotel when the railway line was extended to Killin and Oban. He was signed on 5 November 1965. The portions of the former Callander and Oban Railway between Callander and Strathyre and Balquhidder between Killin and now belong to the National Cycle Network ( Route 7 ) and the Rob Roy Way.

Callander achieved prominence in the 1960s as the backdrop of Tannochbrae in the television series Dr Finlay's Casebook.

The McLaren High School educates students aged 12 to 18 with a catchment area of Tyndrum to Inversnaid.

Annual events

• Callander X 10k (29 April 2012)
• Callander World Highland Games ( July 28 to 29 2012)
• Trossachs Beer Festival ( 24 August to 3 September 2012)
• Callander Jazz & Blues Festival ( September 28 to 30 2012)