Newmilns
Newmilns and also Greenholm is a tiny burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 individuals (2001 census) and also pushes the A71, around 7 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 neighbouring communities of Darvel and Galston, creates a location called the Upper Irvine Valley (in your area referred to 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 separates the churches of Loudoun and Galston, which is why the burgh, although typically referred to as Newmilns, has preserved both names. Of the mills themselves, little now continues to be. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which sat on Brown Street opposite the railway station (contemporary Vesuvius structure). Well Known in Allan Ramsay's poem, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was destroyed in 1977 and all that now remains is part of the mill's outside wall surface. The only mill building still intact can be discovered at the foot of Ladeside. Currently used as housing, Loudoun Mill (previously the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) was in use from 1593 until it quit producing meal in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was gotten rid of and the lade filled in, with the only staying suggestion of the site's former use being a slogan, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" etched on the external wall.