Menstrie is a town in the region of Clackmannanshire in Scotland. It has to do with 5 miles (8 kilometres) east-north-east of Stirling and also is just one of a string of towns that, as a result of their area at the base of the Ochil Hills, are jointly referred to as the Hillfoots Villages or merely The Hillfoots. The passengers of Menstrie when refined woollen from sheep farmed on the Ochils. In 1800, business people from Tullibody set up a carding and also spinning mill on the east side of the Menstrie Burn to manipulate its soft water as well as power, absent from their own town. In the early 19th century a straight road was built on the flat ground of the carse or floodplain to by-pass the old Hillfoots Road as well as improve the transportation of goods to and from the Hillfoots towns. Menstrie's Long Row and also Ochil Road rest on the old course along the foot of the hills. The new roadway, currently the A91, ended up being an emphasis for building and construction of churches, homes, mills as well as shops. 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 was about 500 yet had actually enhanced to greater than 900 by 1881. In the 1860s a business, which included the owners of local mills and a distillery, funded a branch train line through Menstrie to a terminus in Alva. This signed up with the old North British Railway (N.B.R.) line between Alloa and also Stirling at Cambus. Menstrie had its very own guest station at the North end of Tullibody Road. Almost absolutely nothing of the station stays and also the railway branch line, which continued to bring freight after the Beeching Axe, came under disuse throughout the mid-1980s in favour of road transportation. The Glenochil Distillery had opened up in the middle 18th century on the site of the Doll Farm to the eastern of the town, beside the Dams Burn. Production has actually advanced this site for greater than 250 years though production of whisky stopped around 1930. Yeast, at first a spin-off of whisky fermentation, had slowly come to be the major product and went for manufacture of whisky and bread. Soft water, locally readily available, is still valuable. An extensive bonded stockroom location stays for storage of whisky as it matures in barrels prior to bottling, while bakers' yeast has paved the way to fermentation products stemmed from yeast. The whisky and also yeast services are currently run by different firms, particularly Diageo, (successors to Distillers Company) as well as Kerry Group. The latter carries out product development along with producing at the Menstrie site. Elmbank Mill, Menstrie in March 2010. The Forthvale Mill no more stands however the Elmbank Mill, having actually been used for some years as workplaces by the Water Board, currently houses local business. A furnishings factory, The Charrier, stood near the Menstrie Burn yet was ruined by fire in regarding 1968. A road nearby currently births its name. In the mid-20th Century, Menstrie (pop. 1200 - 1300) was house to households whose menfolk functioned the Clackmannanshire Coalfield as well as various other mines in Central Scotland. As the mining and also fabric industries have declined, Menstrie has become a commuter dormitory, topping the adjacent farmland. At the Censuses in 1991, 2001 and also 2011, Menstrie's population was 2274, 2083 and also 2804 respectively. For 2016, the population was estimated as 2872.
