A hamlet located a half-mile (0.8 km) northeast of Tullibody in Clackmannanshire, the settlement was originally built to accommodation for staff at the adjacent HM Prison Glenochil, and their families. Subsequently properties have been sold to their tenants. The houses are of two storeys and identical, built in terraces with single pitch roofs and separate rows of garages. Immediately to the north of the village was the short-lived Glenochil Colliery, sunk in 1952-56 it was intended to be the largest drift mine complex in Britain but closed after only six years due to complex underground conditions and falling demand for coal. This despite hundreds of miners having been brought here from depleted mines in the Lanarkshire coalfields.
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