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 seven miles east of Kilmarnock and twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is located in a valley through which the River Irvine runs and, with the neighbouring towns of Darvel as well as Galston, develops an area called the Upper Irvine Valley (in your area referred to as The Valley). As the name recommends, the burgh exists in two components - Newmilns to the north of the river as well as Greenholm to the south. The river likewise divides the parishes of Loudoun and also Galston, which is why the burgh, although normally described as Newmilns, has preserved both names. Of the mills themselves, bit now continues to be. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which remained on Brown Street opposite the train station (present-day Vesuvius building). Famous in Allan Ramsay's rhyme, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was knocked down in 1977 and all that now continues to be becomes part of the mill's exterior wall. The only mill building still intact can be discovered at the foot of Ladeside. Currently made use of as housing, Loudoun Mill (previously the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) was in usage from 1593 till it quit creating meal in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was gotten rid of and also the lade filled in, with the only continuing to be tip of the site's previous usage being a motto, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" engraved on the external wall.
