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 seven miles east of Kilmarnock and also twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is positioned in a valley through which the River Irvine runs as well as, with the neighbouring communities of Darvel and also Galston, develops a location referred to as the Upper Irvine Valley (locally described as The Valley). As the name recommends, the burgh exists in 2 parts - Newmilns to the north of the river as well as Greenholm to the south. The river also divides the churches of Loudoun as well as Galston, which is why the burgh, although usually referred to as Newmilns, has actually maintained both names. Of the mills themselves, little currently remains. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which remained on Brown Street opposite the railway station (present-day Vesuvius building). Famous in Allan Ramsay's rhyme, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was knocked down in 1977 and all that currently continues to be belongs to the mill's exterior wall. The only mill building still intact can be located at the foot of Ladeside. Now used as housing, Loudoun Mill (previously the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) remained in usage from 1593 till it stopped creating meal in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was gotten rid of as well as the lade filled out, with the only continuing to be recommendation of the site's former usage being an adage, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" etched on the outer wall.
