Newmilns
Newmilns as well as Greenholm is a small 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 located in a valley through which the River Irvine runs and also, with the adjoining towns of Darvel and Galston, creates an area referred to as 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 likewise separates the parishes of Loudoun and also Galston, which is why the burgh, although usually referred to as Newmilns, has retained both names. Of the mills themselves, little bit now stays. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which remained on Brown Street opposite the train station (contemporary Vesuvius building). Famed in Allan Ramsay's poem, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was knocked down in 1977 and all that now continues to be belongs to the mill's outside wall surface. The only mill building still undamaged can be located at the foot of Ladeside. Now used as housing, Loudoun Mill (previously the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) remained in use from 1593 up until it quit creating dish in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was eliminated and also the lade completed, with the only staying recommendation of the site's previous usage being a slogan, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" inscribed on the external wall.
