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 communities that, because of their place at the base of the Ochil Hills, are jointly referred to as the Hillfoots Villages or just The Hillfoots. The owners of Menstrie when processed wool from sheep farmed on the Ochils. In 1800, entrepreneurs from Tullibody established 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 very 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 transportation of products to and from the Hillfoots towns. Menstrie's Long Row as well as Ochil Road rest on the old path along the foot of capitals. The new roadway, now the A91, came to be an emphasis for building of churches, houses, mills as well as shops. By the mid-19th century, the Elmbank as well as Forthvale mills were in business on either side of the Menstrie Burn. In 1841, Menstrie's population had to do with 500 but had enhanced to more than 900 by 1881. In the 1860s a business, that included the owners of neighborhood mills and a distillery, funded a branch railway line with Menstrie to a terminus in Alva. This joined the old North British Railway (N.B.R.) line in between Alloa and also Stirling at Cambus. Menstrie had its own traveler station at the North end of Tullibody Road. Almost absolutely nothing of the station remains as well as the railway branch line, which remained to lug products after the Beeching Axe, fell under disuse throughout the mid-1980s in favour of road transport. The Glenochil Distillery had actually opened up in the middle 18th century on the site of the Doll Farm to the eastern of the village, next to the Dams Burn. Production has actually advanced this site for greater than 250 years though production of whisky quit around 1930. Yeast, originally a spin-off of whisky fermentation, had gradually become the major product and went with manufacture of whisky as well as bread. Soft water, locally available, is still beneficial. A comprehensive bound storage facility area remains for storage space of whisky as it grows in barrels before bottling, while bakers' yeast has actually paved the way to fermentation items stemmed from yeast. The whisky as well as yeast companies are now run by separate business, specifically Diageo, (followers to Distillers Company) as well as Kerry Group. The latter performs item advancement in addition to producing at the Menstrie site. Elmbank Mill, Menstrie in March 2010. The Forthvale Mill no more stands yet the Elmbank Mill, having been made use of for some years as offices by the Water Board, now houses small companies. A furniture factory, The Charrier, stood near the Menstrie Burn but was destroyed by fire in concerning 1968. A street nearby now bears its name. In the mid-20th Century, Menstrie (pop. 1200 - 1300) was residence to families whose menfolk worked the Clackmannanshire Coalfield and also various other mines in Central Scotland. As the mining as well as textile markets have decreased, Menstrie has come to be a commuter dorm, spreading over the nearby farmland. At the Censuses in 1991, 2001 and 2011, Menstrie's population was 2274, 2083 and also 2804 respectively. For 2016, the population was estimated as 2872.