Newmilns
Newmilns and also Greenholm is a small burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 people (2001 census) as well as rests on the A71, around 7 miles east of Kilmarnock and also twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is positioned in a valley whereby the River Irvine runs as well as, with the adjoining towns of Darvel and Galston, forms an area referred to as the Upper Irvine Valley (locally referred to as The Valley). As the name recommends, the burgh exists in 2 components - Newmilns to the north of the river and Greenholm to the south. The river also divides the churches of Loudoun and also Galston, which is why the burgh, although typically described as Newmilns, has retained both names. Of the mills themselves, bit currently remains. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which rested 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 knocked down in 1977 and all that now stays becomes part of the mill's exterior wall surface. The only mill structure still undamaged can be discovered at the foot of Ladeside. Now used as housing, Loudoun Mill (formerly the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) remained in usage from 1593 until it quit creating meal in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was eliminated and also the lade completed, with the only continuing to be suggestion of the site's previous usage being an adage, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" engraved on the external wall.
