Newmilns
Newmilns and Greenholm is a little burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 people (2001 census) and also rests on the A71, around 7 miles east of Kilmarnock as well as twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is positioned in a valley whereby the River Irvine runs and also, with the adjoining communities of Darvel as well as Galston, develops an area referred to as the Upper Irvine Valley (in your area described as The Valley). As the name suggests, the burgh exists in two parts - Newmilns to the north of the river as well as Greenholm to the south. The river likewise separates the churches of Loudoun and Galston, which is why the burgh, although usually referred to as Newmilns, has actually maintained both names. Of the mills themselves, bit currently continues to be. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which remained on Brown Street opposite the train station (present-day Vesuvius structure). Well Known in Allan Ramsay's poem, "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 discovered at the foot of Ladeside. Currently used as housing, Loudoun Mill (previously the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) remained in use from 1593 till it stopped creating dish in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was removed and also the lade completed, with the only remaining suggestion of the site's previous usage being an adage, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" etched on the external wall.
