Menstrie
Menstrie is a town in the county of Clackmannanshire in Scotland. It has to do with 5 miles (8 kilometres) east-north-east of Stirling and also is among a string of towns that, due to their location at the base of the Ochil Hills, are jointly described as the Hillfoots Towns or just The Hillfoots. The passengers of Menstrie when refined wool from sheep farmed on the Ochils. In 1800, business people from Tullibody set up a carding and spinning mill on the east side of the Menstrie Burn to exploit its soft water as well as power, lacking from their very own village. 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 and enhance the transport of items to and also from the Hillfoots villages. Menstrie's Long Row and also Ochil Road push the old course along the foot of capitals. The new road, now the A91, came to be a focus for construction of churches, houses, mills and also stores. By the mid-19th century, the Elmbank and also Forthvale mills stayed in business on either side of the Menstrie Burn. In 1841, Menstrie's population was about 500 but had enhanced to greater than 900 by 1881. In the 1860s a company, which included the owners of neighborhood mills and also a distillery, funded a branch train line via Menstrie to a terminus in Alva. This joined the old North British Railway (N.B.R.) line between Alloa and also Stirling at Cambus. Menstrie had its very own passenger station at the North end of Tullibody Road. Almost nothing of the station remains and the railway branch line, which remained to carry 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 continued this site for greater than 250 years though manufacturing of whisky quit about 1930. Yeast, initially a spin-off of whisky fermentation, had slowly come to be the main product and went with manufacture of whisky and bread. Soft water, locally offered, is still valuable. A comprehensive adhered storehouse location stays for storage space of whisky as it matures in barrels before bottling, while bakers' yeast has actually given way to fermentation products derived from yeast. The whisky as well as yeast companies are currently run by different firms, particularly Diageo, (followers to Distillers Company) and also Kerry Group. The last carries out item development as well as producing at the Menstrie site. Elmbank Mill, Menstrie in March 2010. The Forthvale Mill no more stands but the Elmbank Mill, having been made use of for some years as offices by the Water Board, currently houses small businesses. A furnishings factory, The Charrier, stood near the Menstrie Burn but was damaged by fire in about 1968. A road nearby now bears its name. In the mid-20th Century, Menstrie (pop. 1200 - 1300) was home to family members whose menfolk worked the Clackmannanshire Coalfield and also other mines in Central Scotland. As the mining and textile industries have decreased, Menstrie has come to be a traveler dorm, topping the adjacent farmland. At the Censuses in 1991, 2001 and also 2011, Menstrie's population was 2274, 2083 as well as 2804 respectively. For 2016, the population was approximated as 2872.