Newmilns
Newmilns and also Greenholm is a small burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 people (2001 census) and also lies on the A71, around seven miles east of Kilmarnock and also twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is situated in a valley through which the River Irvine runs and also, with the adjoining communities of Darvel and also Galston, creates a location known as the Upper Irvine Valley (locally described as The Valley). As the name recommends, the burgh exists in two 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 generally referred to as Newmilns, has actually kept both names. Of the mills themselves, little now stays. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which rested on Brown Street opposite the railway station (present-day Vesuvius building). Famed in Allan Ramsay's poem, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was destroyed in 1977 and all that currently continues to be belongs to the mill's outside wall surface. The only mill building still intact can be found at the foot of Ladeside. Currently made use of as real estate, Loudoun Mill (formerly the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) remained in usage from 1593 till it stopped producing meal in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was removed as well as the lade completed, with the only continuing to be idea of the site's previous usage being a motto, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" etched on the external wall.