Newmilns
Newmilns and Greenholm is a small burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 people (2001 census) and also rests on the A71, around seven miles east of Kilmarnock and also twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is situated in a valley whereby the River Irvine runs and also, with the neighbouring communities of Darvel as well as Galston, forms an area referred to as the Upper Irvine Valley (in your area referred to as The Valley). As the name suggests, the burgh exists in 2 components - Newmilns to the north of the river and also Greenholm to the south. The river additionally separates the churches of Loudoun as well as Galston, which is why the burgh, although usually referred to as Newmilns, has maintained both names. Of the mills themselves, bit currently stays. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which sat on Brown Street opposite the railway station (present-day Vesuvius building). Renowned in Allan Ramsay's poem, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was destroyed in 1977 and all that now continues to be belongs to the mill's outside wall. The only mill building still intact can be located at the foot of Ladeside. Currently made use of as housing, Loudoun Mill (formerly the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) remained in usage from 1593 until it stopped generating meal in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was gotten rid of and the lade completed, with the only continuing to be recommendation of the site's former usage being an adage, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" etched on the external wall.