Newmilns and also Greenholm is a small burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 people (2001 census) and 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 as well as, with the neighbouring towns of Darvel and also Galston, creates an area called the Upper Irvine Valley (locally described as The Valley). As the name recommends, the burgh exists in 2 components - Newmilns to the north of the river and also Greenholm to the south. The river additionally divides the parishes of Loudoun and also Galston, which is why the burgh, although normally referred to as Newmilns, has maintained both names. Of the mills themselves, bit now remains. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which sat on Brown Street opposite the train station (contemporary Vesuvius building). Famed 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 outside wall surface. The only mill building still intact can be discovered at the foot of Ladeside. Currently used as housing, Loudoun Mill (previously the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) remained in use from 1593 till it quit creating dish in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was gotten rid of and the lade filled in, with the only remaining suggestion of the site's former use being a slogan, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" inscribed on the outer wall.