Menstrie

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Menstrie
Scottish Gaelic Meanstraibh
Coordinates 56 ° 9 ′  N , 3 ° 51 ′  W Coordinates: 56 ° 9 ′  N , 3 ° 51 ′  W
Menstrie (Scotland)
Menstrie
Menstrie
Residents 2804 2011 census
administration
Post town MENSTRY
ZIP code section FK11
prefix 01259
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Clackmannanshire
British Parliament Ochil and South Perthshire
Scottish Parliament Clackmannanshire and Dunblane

Menstrie ( Gaelic : Meanstraibh ) is a village in the Scottish Council Area Clackmannanshire . It is located on the western border of the administrative district about eight kilometers northeast of Stirling and five kilometers northwest of Alloa at the foot of the Ochil Hills and is one of the Hillfoots Villages . Menstrie is connected to the road network by the A91 . In 2011 Menstrie had 2804 inhabitants. The Menstrie Burn stream , which comes from the Ochils, crosses the village and flows into the Devonian about a kilometer further .

Between 1746 and 1929 Menstrie operated the nationally important whiskey distillery Glenochil . Today there are large bonded warehouses of the international Diageo group for the storage of whiskey, which are of great economic importance for Menstrie. There is also a yeast factory in Menstrie.

Menstrie is home to Menstrie Castle , which dates back to the late 16th century . This is where William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling and Ralph Abercromby were born.

  • Menstrie Castle

  • The Ochils seen from the customs warehouse

  • Yeast factory in Menstrie

Web links

Commons : Menstrie  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
  2. ↑ 2011 census
  3. ↑ to the Glenochil distillery on lostdistillery.com
  4. ↑ Entry on the Glenochil distillery at scotlandsplaces.gov.uk ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk
  5. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  6. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer of Scotland