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Newmilns - KA16
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Newmilns
Newmilns and Greenholm is a small burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 individuals (2001 census) as well as rests on the A71, around seven miles east of Kilmarnock as well as twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is situated in a valley whereby the River Irvine runs and, with the adjoining towns of Darvel and Galston, creates an area known as the Upper Irvine Valley (in your area referred to as The Valley). As the name recommends, the burgh exists in 2 parts - Newmilns to the north of the river and also Greenholm to the south. The river also separates the churches of Loudoun and also Galston, which is why the burgh, although typically described as Newmilns, has actually kept both names. Of the mills themselves, bit now remains. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which remained on Brown Street opposite the railway station (present-day Vesuvius building). Renowned in Allan Ramsay's rhyme, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was knocked down in 1977 and all that currently stays becomes part of the mill's outside wall surface. The only mill structure still undamaged can be discovered at the foot of Ladeside. Now used as housing, Loudoun Mill (previously the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) was in usage from 1593 until it stopped creating meal in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was eliminated as well as the lade filled out, with the only continuing to be idea of the site's previous usage being a motto, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" inscribed on the outer wall.
