Newmilns
Newmilns and Greenholm is a small burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 individuals (2001 census) and also lies on the A71, around seven 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 also, with the adjoining communities 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 2 parts - Newmilns to the north of the river and also Greenholm to the south. The river likewise separates the churches of Loudoun as well as Galston, which is why the burgh, although usually described as Newmilns, has actually kept both names. Of the mills themselves, bit currently stays. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which sat on Brown Street opposite the railway station (present-day Vesuvius building). Famous in Allan Ramsay's poem, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was knocked down in 1977 and all that currently stays becomes part of the mill's outside wall. The only mill structure still undamaged can be discovered at the foot of Ladeside. Currently made use of as housing, Loudoun Mill (formerly the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) was in use from 1593 up until it stopped generating dish in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was gotten rid of and also the lade completed, with the only remaining pointer of the site's former usage being a motto, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" engraved on the outer wall.