Newmilns and Greenholm is a tiny burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 people (2001 census) and also lies on the A71, around 7 miles east of Kilmarnock and also twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is located in a valley through which the River Irvine runs and, with the adjoining towns of Darvel and Galston, develops an area known as the Upper Irvine Valley (in your area described as The Valley). As the name recommends, the burgh exists in 2 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 typically referred to as Newmilns, has retained both names. Of the mills themselves, little currently continues to be. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which remained on Brown Street opposite the railway station (present-day Vesuvius building). Renowned in Allan Ramsay's rhyme, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was destroyed in 1977 and all that now remains becomes part of the mill's outside wall. The only mill building still undamaged can be located at the foot of Ladeside. Currently used as housing, Loudoun Mill (previously the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) was in use from 1593 until it stopped creating meal in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was eliminated and the lade completed, with the only staying idea of the site's previous use being a motto, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" inscribed on the outer wall.