Newmilns
Newmilns and also Greenholm is a tiny burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 people (2001 census) and rests on the A71, around 7 miles east of Kilmarnock as well as twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is located in a valley whereby the River Irvine runs as well as, with the adjoining towns of Darvel as well as Galston, forms a location called the Upper Irvine Valley (in your area referred to as The Valley). As the name suggests, the burgh exists in 2 parts - Newmilns to the north of the river and also Greenholm to the south. The river likewise divides the churches of Loudoun as well as Galston, which is why the burgh, although normally described as Newmilns, has actually retained both names. Of the mills themselves, bit currently stays. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which sat on Brown Street opposite the train station (present-day Vesuvius building). Well Known in Allan Ramsay's poem, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was demolished in 1977 and all that now continues to be belongs to the mill's exterior wall. The only mill building still undamaged can be located at the foot of Ladeside. Currently used as housing, Loudoun Mill (formerly the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) remained in use from 1593 until it quit producing meal in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was removed and the lade completed, with the only continuing to be idea of the site's previous usage being a motto, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" etched on the outer wall.
