Newmilns and Greenholm is a tiny burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 individuals (2001 census) and lies on the A71, around seven miles east of Kilmarnock and twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is positioned in a valley where the River Irvine runs as well as, with the adjoining towns of Darvel and also Galston, develops a location referred to as the Upper Irvine Valley (in your area referred to as The Valley). As the name suggests, the burgh exists in 2 components - Newmilns to the north of the river and Greenholm to the south. The river likewise separates the churches of Loudoun and also Galston, which is why the burgh, although generally referred to as Newmilns, has maintained both names. Of the mills themselves, little bit now remains. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which rested on Brown Street opposite the train station (contemporary Vesuvius structure). Famous in Allan Ramsay's rhyme, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was destroyed in 1977 and all that currently stays is part of the mill's exterior wall surface. The only mill structure still intact can be located at the foot of Ladeside. Currently used as housing, Loudoun Mill (formerly the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) remained in usage from 1593 until it stopped producing meal in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was eliminated as well as the lade filled out, with the only continuing to be tip of the site's previous use being a motto, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" etched on the outer wall.