Menstrie is a village in the area of Clackmannanshire in Scotland. It has to do with 5 miles (8 kilometres) east-north-east of Stirling and is one of a string of towns that, because of their place at the base of the Ochil Hills, are jointly described as the Hillfoots Towns or merely The Hillfoots. The owners of Menstrie when processed woollen from lamb farmed on the Ochils. In 1800, entrepreneurs from Tullibody set up a carding as well as rotating mill on the east side of the Menstrie Burn to manipulate its soft water and power, absent from their very own village. In the early 19th century a straight road was built on the level ground of the carse or floodplain to by-pass the old Hillfoots Road and improve the transport of goods to and also from the Hillfoots villages. Menstrie's Long Row and Ochil Road lie on the old course along the foot of capitals. The new roadway, now the A91, ended up being an emphasis for building and construction of churches, homes, mills and stores. By the mid-19th century, the Elmbank and Forthvale mills stayed in business on either side of the Menstrie Burn. In 1841, Menstrie's population was about 500 yet had actually boosted to more than 900 by 1881. In the 1860s a company, which included the proprietors of regional mills as well as a distillery, funded a branch railway line via Menstrie to a terminus in Alva. This joined the old North British Railway (N.B.R.) line in between Alloa and Stirling at Cambus. Menstrie had its very own traveler station at the North end of Tullibody Road. Virtually nothing of the station stays and also the railway branch line, which remained to bring freight after the Beeching Axe, fell into disuse throughout the mid-1980s in favour of road transport. The Glenochil Distillery had actually opened in the middle 18th century on the site of the Doll Farm to the eastern of the town, beside the Dams Burn. Production has continued this site for more than 250 years though manufacturing of whisky stopped about 1930. Yeast, at first a by-product of whisky fermentation, had slowly come to be the main product and also opted for manufacture of whisky and also bread. Soft water, in your area available, is still beneficial. An extensive bound warehouse area continues to be for storage of whisky as it develops in barrels before bottling, while bakers' yeast has paved the way to fermentation items derived from yeast. The whisky and yeast services are currently operated by separate firms, namely Diageo, (successors to Distillers Company) and Kerry Group. The last carries out item growth in addition to producing at the Menstrie site. Elmbank Mill, Menstrie in March 2010. The Forthvale Mill no more stands but the Elmbank Mill, having actually been used for some years as offices by the Water Board, now houses local business. A furniture factory, The Charrier, stood near the Menstrie Burn however was damaged by fire in regarding 1968. A road close by now bears its name. In the mid-20th Century, Menstrie (pop. 1200 - 1300) was residence to family members whose menfolk functioned the Clackmannanshire Coalfield and various other mines in Central Scotland. As the mining and also fabric markets have actually declined, Menstrie has ended up being a traveler dormitory, topping the adjacent farmland. At the Censuses in 1991, 2001 and 2011, Menstrie's population was 2274, 2083 and also 2804 specifically. For 2016, the population was estimated as 2872.