small burgh (town), Stirling council area, historic county of Perthshire, Scotland, on the River Teith. It is a tourist centre on an important entry point into the Highlands, near the Trossachs, Loch Katrine, and the mountain Ben Ledi, which has an elevation of 2,873 feet (876 metres). This romantic and scenic region was described in Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake. Pop. (2001) 2,754.