Newmilns
Newmilns and also Greenholm is a small burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 individuals (2001 census) and also rests on the A71, around seven miles east of Kilmarnock and twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is located in a valley where the River Irvine runs as well as, with the adjoining communities of Darvel and also Galston, forms a location called the Upper Irvine Valley (in your area described as The Valley). As the name suggests, the burgh exists in 2 components - Newmilns to the north of the river and also Greenholm to the south. The river additionally separates the churches of Loudoun as well as Galston, which is why the burgh, although normally described as Newmilns, has actually retained both names. Of the mills themselves, little bit now continues to be. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which rested on Brown Street opposite the train station (contemporary Vesuvius building). Renowned in Allan Ramsay's poem, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was knocked down in 1977 and all that now remains becomes part of the mill's outside wall surface. The only mill building still undamaged can be discovered at the foot of Ladeside. Now used as housing, Loudoun Mill (previously the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) remained in usage from 1593 until it quit creating dish in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was eliminated and also the lade completed, with the only remaining tip of the site's former use being an adage, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" etched on the outer wall.
