Newmilns as well as Greenholm is a little burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 individuals (2001 census) as well as lies on the A71, around seven miles east of Kilmarnock and also twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is located in a valley where the River Irvine runs and also, with the adjoining communities of Darvel and also Galston, creates a location known as the Upper Irvine Valley (in your area referred to as The Valley). As the name suggests, the burgh exists in two parts - Newmilns to the north of the river as well as Greenholm to the south. The river additionally separates the churches of Loudoun and also Galston, which is why the burgh, although usually referred to as Newmilns, has kept both names. Of the mills themselves, bit currently stays. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which remained on Brown Street opposite the train station (contemporary Vesuvius building). Famed in Allan Ramsay's rhyme, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was knocked down in 1977 and all that currently stays becomes part of the mill's outside wall surface. The only mill structure still intact can be located at the foot of Ladeside. Currently used as real estate, Loudoun Mill (previously the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) remained in use from 1593 till it quit producing meal in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was gotten rid of as well as the lade filled out, with the only continuing to be idea of the site's previous use being a slogan, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" etched on the external wall.