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Newmilns
Newmilns and also Greenholm is a little burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 people (2001 census) as well as pushes the A71, around 7 miles east of Kilmarnock as well as twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is situated in a valley where the River Irvine runs as well as, with the neighbouring towns of Darvel and Galston, develops a location referred to 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 and also Greenholm to the south. The river likewise splits the churches of Loudoun as well as Galston, which is why the burgh, although generally referred to as Newmilns, has kept both names. Of the mills themselves, little bit currently stays. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which rested on Brown Street opposite the train station (present-day Vesuvius building). Renowned in Allan Ramsay's poem, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was demolished in 1977 and all that now stays is part of the mill's outside wall surface. The only mill structure still undamaged can be located at the foot of Ladeside. Now made use of as real estate, Loudoun Mill (previously the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) remained in use from 1593 until it stopped creating meal in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was removed and also the lade filled out, with the only staying suggestion of the site's former use being a motto, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" inscribed on the outer wall.