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 and also is one of a string of communities that, because of their area at the base of the Ochil Hills, are collectively described as the Hillfoots Villages or simply The Hillfoots. The owners of Menstrie as soon as refined wool from lamb 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 and also power, missing from their very own town. In the very early 19th century a straight road was improved the flat ground of the carse or floodplain to by-pass the old Hillfoots Road and improve the transport of goods to and from the Hillfoots villages. Menstrie's Long Row and Ochil Road push the old path along the foot of the hills. The new roadway, currently the A91, ended up being an emphasis for building and construction of churches, houses, mills and also stores. By the mid-19th century, the Elmbank and Forthvale mills were in business on either side of the Menstrie Burn. In 1841, Menstrie's population was about 500 but had raised to greater than 900 by 1881. In the 1860s a company, that included the owners of neighborhood mills and a distillery, funded a branch railway line through Menstrie to a terminus in Alva. This signed up with the old North British Railway (N.B.R.) line in between Alloa and also Stirling at Cambus. Menstrie had its very own traveler station at the North end of Tullibody Road. Virtually absolutely nothing of the station continues to be and also the railway branch line, which remained to carry freight 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, close to the Dams Burn. Manufacturing has advanced this site for more than 250 years though manufacturing of whisky stopped around 1930. Yeast, at first a spin-off of whisky fermentation, had slowly come to be the main item as well as went with manufacture of whisky as well as bread. Soft water, locally readily available, is still useful. An extensive bonded stockroom area remains for storage of whisky as it matures in barrels before bottling, while bakers' yeast has actually paved the way to fermentation products derived from yeast. The whisky as well as yeast companies are currently operated by separate business, particularly Diageo, (followers to Distillers Company) as well as Kerry Group. The last performs product growth as well as manufacturing at the Menstrie site. Elmbank Mill, Menstrie in March 2010. The Forthvale Mill no more stands however 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 yet was destroyed 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 worked the Clackmannanshire Coalfield and also other mines in Central Scotland. As the mining and textile industries have actually decreased, Menstrie has become a commuter dorm, topping the surrounding farmland. At the Censuses in 1991, 2001 and 2011, Menstrie's population was 2274, 2083 as well as 2804 specifically. For 2016, the population was approximated as 2872.