Newmilns
Newmilns as well as Greenholm is a small burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 people (2001 census) as well as lies on the A71, around seven miles east of Kilmarnock and also twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is located in a valley through which the River Irvine runs and also, with the neighbouring towns of Darvel as well as Galston, develops a location referred to as the Upper Irvine Valley (locally described 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 additionally divides the parishes of Loudoun and also Galston, which is why the burgh, although normally described as Newmilns, has maintained both names. Of the mills themselves, bit now remains. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which sat on Brown Street opposite the train station (present-day Vesuvius structure). Famous in Allan Ramsay's poem, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was destroyed in 1977 and all that currently remains becomes part of the mill's outside wall surface. The only mill structure still undamaged can be found at the foot of Ladeside. Currently used as housing, Loudoun Mill (formerly the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) was in usage from 1593 up until it quit producing dish in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was removed and also the lade completed, with the only continuing to be idea of the site's former use being an adage, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" engraved on the outer wall.
