Newmilns
Newmilns and also Greenholm is a little burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 individuals (2001 census) as well as pushes the A71, around 7 miles east of Kilmarnock as well as twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is situated in a valley through which the River Irvine runs and, with the adjoining communities of Darvel and also Galston, forms a location known as the Upper Irvine Valley (in your area referred to as The Valley). As the name recommends, the burgh exists in two parts - Newmilns to the north of the river and Greenholm to the south. The river likewise divides the churches of Loudoun and Galston, which is why the burgh, although generally referred to as Newmilns, has maintained both names. Of the mills themselves, little now continues to be. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which rested on Brown Street opposite the train station (contemporary Vesuvius building). Well Known in Allan Ramsay's poem, "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. The only mill structure still intact can be located at the foot of Ladeside. Now used as real estate, Loudoun Mill (formerly the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) remained in use from 1593 till it stopped creating meal in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was eliminated and the lade filled in, with the only continuing to be idea of the site's former use being an adage, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" engraved on the outer wall.
