Menstrie is a village in the county of Clackmannanshire in Scotland. It has to do with 5 miles (8 kilometres) east-north-east of Stirling as well as is just one of a string of towns that, as a result of their place at the base of the Ochil Hills, are jointly referred to as the Hillfoots Villages or merely The Hillfoots. The owners of Menstrie as soon as processed wool from sheep farmed on the Ochils. In 1800, entrepreneurs from Tullibody set up a carding and also rotating mill on the east side of the Menstrie Burn to manipulate its soft water and power, absent from their own town. In the early 19th century a straight road was improved the flat ground of the carse or floodplain to by-pass the old Hillfoots Road and also boost the transport of items to and from the Hillfoots villages. Menstrie's Long Row and also Ochil Road push the old path along the foot of capitals. The new road, now the A91, ended up being a focus for building and construction of churches, residences, mills and stores. By the mid-19th century, the Elmbank and also Forthvale mills were in business on either side of the Menstrie Burn. In 1841, Menstrie's population had to do with 500 yet had boosted to more than 900 by 1881. In the 1860s a company, that included the proprietors of local mills as well as a distillery, financed a branch railway line via Menstrie to a terminus in Alva. This signed up with the old North British Railway (N.B.R.) line between Alloa as well as Stirling at Cambus. Menstrie had its very own passenger station at the North end of Tullibody Road. Almost absolutely nothing of the station continues to be and also the railway branch line, which continued to lug products after the Beeching Axe, came under disuse throughout the mid-1980s in favour of road transportation. The Glenochil Distillery had actually opened up in the middle 18th century on the site of the Doll Farm to the eastern of the town, next to the Dams Burn. Manufacturing has continued on this website for greater than 250 years though production of whisky quit around 1930. Yeast, originally a by-product of whisky fermentation, had progressively become the primary product and also opted for manufacture of whisky as well as bread. Soft water, in your area offered, is still beneficial. A comprehensive bound storehouse area remains for storage of whisky as it matures in barrels prior to bottling, while bakers' yeast has paved the way to fermentation products derived from yeast. The whisky and also yeast services are now run by separate firms, namely Diageo, (successors to Distillers Company) as well as Kerry Group. The last conducts item development in addition to manufacturing at the Menstrie site. Elmbank Mill, Menstrie in March 2010. The Forthvale Mill no longer stands yet the Elmbank Mill, having been used for some years as workplaces by the Water Board, now houses small companies. A furnishings manufacturing facility, The Charrier, stood near the Menstrie Burn yet was damaged by fire in about 1968. A street nearby now births its name. In the mid-20th Century, Menstrie (pop. 1200 - 1300) was home to families whose menfolk worked the Clackmannanshire Coalfield and also other mines in Central Scotland. As the mining and also textile markets have actually decreased, Menstrie has actually ended up being a commuter dorm room, spreading over the adjacent farmland. At the Censuses in 1991, 2001 and 2011, Menstrie's population was 2274, 2083 and 2804 specifically. For 2016, the population was estimated as 2872.