Callander (Scotland)
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Callander Scottish Gaelic Calasraid |
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| Coordinates | 56 ° 15 ′ N , 4 ° 13 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 3077 2011 census | ||
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| Post town | CALLANDER | ||
| ZIP code section | FK17 | ||
| prefix | 01877 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | Stirling | ||
| British Parliament | Stirling | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Stirling | ||
Callander is a small town in the Stirling Council Area in Scotland , on Teith . The city is in the former county of Perthshire and is a popular tourist destination in the Highlands . Callander is home to the Clanranald Trust for Scotland , a non-profit organization whose project is to build the medieval village of Duncarron .
location
The city serves as the eastern gateway to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park , Scotland's first national park. Given its location, Callander is often referred to as the gateway to the Highlands . The tourist information center is now housed in the former St. Kessogs Church.
The image of the city is shaped by the rock walls in the north, a visible part of the Highland Boundary Fault , which are 343 m high. Local hiking trails include Bracklinn Falls, the Meadows, Callander Crags and the Wood Walks. The city is on the Trossachs Bird of Prey Trail .
history
Battle of Callander
In 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 McNabs for their allegiance to Montrose . During the siege of Castle Ample , word of 700 advancing Atholl men under Inchbrakie reached the Campbells. These withdrew in a southerly direction. But when the Campbells crossed a ford near the village of Callander, they were overtaken and forced to fight. Inchbrakie had part of his troops attacked, while another detachment secretly marched to a ford upstream near the present bridge. The ford was quickly crossed and the Campbells were unexpectedly attacked from behind, dispersed and fled. They had to leave eighty of their men dead.
Since the nineteenth century
Callander was from July 1, 1858 the terminus of a railway line from Dunblane . A second station was opened on July 1, 1870, about half a mile west of the Dreadnought Hotel , when the railway line was expanded to Killin and Oban . It was closed on November 5, 1965. The sections of the former Callander and Oban Railway between Callander and Strathyre and between Balquhidder and Killin are now part of the National Cycle Network (Route 7) and the Rob Roy Way .
Helen Duncan comes from Callander and was the last woman convicted as a witch in Europe .
Callander became famous in the 1960s as the setting for Tannochbrae in the television series Dr Finlay's Casebook .
The McLaren High School teaches students aged 12 to 18 with a catchment area of Tyndrum to Inversnaid.
Annual events
- Callander X 10k (April 29, 2012)
- Callander World Highland Games (July 28-29, 2012)
- Trossachs Beer Festival (August 24th - September 3rd, 2012)
- Callander Jazz & Blues Festival (September 28-30, 2012)
Footnotes
- ^ Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ Callander and local hiking trails (English) ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Trossach's Bird of Prey Trail ( memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ National Cycle Network ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rob Roy Way
- ↑ Callander X 10k ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Callander World Highland Games
- ↑ Trossachs Beer Festival ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Callander Jazz & Blues Festival
