Newmilns and Greenholm is a small burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 people (2001 census) and also pushes the A71, around seven miles east of Kilmarnock and also twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is located in a valley whereby the River Irvine runs as well as, with the adjoining towns of Darvel and Galston, develops an area referred to as the Upper Irvine Valley (locally described as The Valley). As the name recommends, the burgh exists in 2 components - Newmilns to the north of the river and Greenholm to the south. The river also divides the churches of Loudoun and Galston, which is why the burgh, although usually referred to as Newmilns, has preserved both names. Of the mills themselves, bit currently stays. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which remained on Brown Street opposite the train station (contemporary Vesuvius structure). Famed in Allan Ramsay's rhyme, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was demolished in 1977 and all that now continues to be belongs to the mill's exterior wall surface. The only mill structure still undamaged can be located at the foot of Ladeside. Now used as real estate, Loudoun Mill (previously the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) remained in use from 1593 till it quit producing dish in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was eliminated and the lade filled out, with the only remaining tip of the site's former use being a slogan, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" engraved on the outer wall.