Menstrie is a town in the area of Clackmannanshire in Scotland. It is about 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 location at the base of the Ochil Hills, are jointly described as the Hillfoots Towns or just The Hillfoots. The occupants of Menstrie as soon as refined woollen from sheep farmed on the Ochils. In 1800, business owners from Tullibody set up a carding and rotating mill on the east side of the Menstrie Burn to manipulate its soft water as well as power, absent from their 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 as well as boost the transport of products to as well as from the Hillfoots towns. Menstrie's Long Row and also Ochil Road push the old path along the foot of the hills. The new road, currently the A91, came to be a focus for construction 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 was about 500 however had actually enhanced to more than 900 by 1881. In the 1860s a business, that included the proprietors of regional mills as well as a distillery, funded a branch train line with 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 own traveler station at the North end of Tullibody Road. Virtually nothing of the station remains and also the railway branch line, which continued to carry products after the Beeching Axe, fell under disuse during 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 town, beside the Dams Burn. Manufacturing has actually advanced this site for more than 250 years though production of whisky quit about 1930. Yeast, initially a by-product of whisky fermentation, had gradually come to be the main product as well as went with manufacture of whisky as well as bread. Soft water, locally offered, is still beneficial. An extensive bound storage facility location continues to be for storage space of whisky as it develops in barrels before bottling, while bakers' yeast has actually paved the way to fermentation items originated from yeast. The whisky and yeast companies are now run by separate firms, particularly Diageo, (followers to Distillers Company) and also Kerry Group. The latter performs item growth as well as making at the Menstrie site. Elmbank Mill, Menstrie in March 2010. The Forthvale Mill no more stands yet the Elmbank Mill, having actually been made use of for some years as offices by the Water Board, currently houses local business. A furniture manufacturing facility, The Charrier, stood near the Menstrie Burn but was ruined by fire in regarding 1968. A road close by currently bears 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 textile markets have actually declined, Menstrie has ended up being a traveler dorm room, spreading over the surrounding 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.